Steve’s Blog
See also:
The Ultralight
Hiker on the Dusky Track Fiordland 2017
19/08/2022: Laser spacecraft propulsion is coming. “On the eventual upper end, a full scale system (50-100 GW) will propel a wafer-scale spacecraft with a meter class reflector (laser sail) to about c/4 in a few minutes of laser illumination allowing hundreds of launches per day or 100,000 missions per year. Such a system would reach the distance to Mars (1 AU) in 30 minutes, pass Voyager I in less than 3 days, pass 1,000 AU in 12 days, and reach Alpha Centauri in about 20 years.” https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/08/technology-to-make-interstellar-missions-possible-and-affordable.html
19/08/2022: How can three declining trend periods add up to an increasing trend? Maths is weird: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/17/fun-with-trends/
19/08/2022: Yes, the Libs have to dump Guy and damned soon, but have they got a true conservative they can put in his place? Please come back Jeff Kennett: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/matthew-guy-is-literally-history/
19/08/2022: Seems to me that if
18/08/2022: The best female swimmer in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sgjc29QCGo
18/08/2022: Maybe there are no higher or lower creatures: https://www.sapiens.org/biology/evolution-march-of-progress/
18/08/2022: The new Concorde –
imagine being able to fly return to
18/08/2022: So, why would the
presence of foot and mouth disease in
17/08/2022: Good News – hearing aids may soon get to be ‘self-fitting’ and much cheaper: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/16/23307974/hearing-aids-over-counter-fda-apple-bose
17/08/2022: Frankly I am shocked that ‘the average person tells four lies a day’. I was always taught never to lie: https://www.studyfinds.org/average-person-tells-four-lies-daily/
17/08/2022: Interesting Rasmussen Poll: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/interesting-poll-from-rasmussen/ Here’s Tucker’s take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74lDvZ1IPj4 If the FBI (etc) really believed Trump still had the nuclear codes they would hardly have waited 18 months to act.
17/08/2022: Here is a very big whoopsie about human produced CO2 (which I admit I hadn’t spotted. Humans simply cannot have ‘caused’ the increase in CO2 which (if it ) has occurred because human CO2 is only 5% of all sources of CO2 (and clearly ‘stays’ in the atmosphere for exactly the same amount of time as ‘natural’ CO2) so it cannot possible add up to 32% as the IPCC (greens etc) claim: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/16/the-impact-of-human-co2-on-atmospheric-co2-summary/
Also note:
16/08/2022: Only the modeled climate responds. Why won’t the real climate play along and boil us like frogs: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/08/a-clear-case-of-hot-hotter-hoodwinked/
16/08/2022: With her popularity now at 30% hopefully we will soon see the back of ‘the wicked witch of the West’ aka Jacinda Ardern. You would hope to see the same thing happening to all the vile socialists we have running things over here too…if only so many of the ‘conservatives’ weren’t trying to beat them at their own game: https://www.rebelnews.com/jacinda_ardern_tipped_to_be_dumped_as_pm
16/08/2022: Nuclear fusion achieved
in the lab at
16/08/2022: We spent more money on education, remember? Maybe not good value for money. These people vote too: https://moonbattery.com/education-system-produces-staggering-ignorance/
15/08/2022: The escalating prices of (especially) lithium and cobalt make EVs much more expensive than conventional cars. The petrol F-150 for example costs US$33K today but its EV version will be at least $20K more expensive. And you have to accept that a couple of three poor people somewhere have died in order to produce it! https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/question-of-the-day/qotd-why-arent-evs-becoming-more-affordable-44496610
Good one: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/wisdom-of-the-ages.html
15/08/2022: First they claimed that they were after menus and other silly things but now they have gone even sillier and claim Trump had the nuclear war codes still in his pockets: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/code-red-for-the-deep-state.php
15/08/2022: In the
15/08/2022: Vegetarianism is not so great after all (particularly if you are a woman): https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/11/vegetarian-women-fracture-hips-study-bone-healthv & https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/plant-based-diet-is-not-so-virtuous-or-healthy-says-new-book/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter
14/08/2022: Short season crops, ie things which produce a harvest in as little time as possible are something you should be giving serious thought to. You need to be collecting seeds from such plants (not F1 hybrids from which no useful seeds can be collected). Many varieties of all the common vegetables were long ago developed for use in colder climes or to produce multiple crops in warmer ones. ‘Diggers’ is a good source. The mandated increases in the cost of energy (and the really desperate coming shortage if urea) will mean that food will become scarce or very expensive. We are building two greenhouses which will give us an abundance of ‘summer’ crops over winter and really heat dependent crops (eg melons) over summer here in Southern Vic where it is difficult to grow such things.Our vegie garden is also completely planted out already and will be expanded – as will our orchards. I notice greenhouses and seeds are already in short supply. When the urea finally dries up and the trucks stop bringing the produce down from the North things will get tough. Time to get out into the back yard with a hoe.
You can get your plants started early with a $10 propagator next to a window. Here you see several varieties of tomato, eggplant and capiscum already up. They will be in the greenhouse in a bit over a week. Some will produce crops by the end of September!
14/08/2022: The Ukrainians may be taking awful losses but they are still fighting back it seems: https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-long-anticipate-southern-counteroffensive-begin-bang-crimea/
14/08/2022: History almost always
beats ‘science’, but let’s hope that the worst times are behind us because we
are now better able to adapt. It was much warmer than today in the
not-s0-distant past. They used to grow wine in
14/08/2022: After 33 years the fatwa has finally come for Salman Rushdie for the terrible sin of pointing out that the ‘perfect book’ has some truly evil passages in it and that the ‘perfect man’ was anything but – ie a mass murderer and child rapist. I applaud Macron’s statement of support, “For 33 years, Salman Rushdie has embodied freedom and the fight against obscurantism. He has just been the victim of a cowardly attack by the forces of hatred and barbarism. His fight is our fight; it is universal. Now more than ever, we stand by his side.”: https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/author-salman-rushdie-stabbed/news-story/6821ed8e0b9bcf40bba3ad8c3e1eff51
13/08/2022:
We will definitely take side trips to Long Point (Lighthouse) Hut and the Slaughter Burn Hut on the way to/from the
13/08/2022: The temperature data –
indeed the whole idea behind it – is faked. It is just not possible to
establish an ‘average’ temperature. Walk around your own back yard with a
thermometer and you will easily find areas where the
13/08/2022: “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population.” This is the way the global elites actually think, deeming themselves enormously more important (for having meetings) than the folks who grow and deliver our food, care for the elderly or clean toilets etc. Now with their war on farming, energy etc they plan to get rid of that vast mass of unnecessary people who will (if they succeed) all be gone in one season – after which they will virtuously sigh, ‘It was not our fault’, as Nazis always have: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/08/10/wef-adviser-yuval-harari-we-just-dont-need-the-vast-majority-of-the-population-in-todays-world/
Stalin called the farmers ‘the enemies of the people’. By expropriating them, the state took control of food production. 7 million starved to death. A century later, the WEF is opening the ‘war on farmers’. https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-8-6-net-zero-is-not-just-for-carbon-emissions-now-its-nitrogen
13/08/2022: This snake Kean (and Matthew Guy et al) are what is wrong with the Liberal Party. A conservative Party has to represent what ordinary Australians think and want: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/green_matt_kean_to_guide_nsw_liberals_to_electoral_disaster
It’s not just a leadership change that’s needed though, but a complete change of direction. As its slogan a re-awakened Liberal Party ought to adopt Tony’s old slogan, ‘Climate Change is Crap’: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/matthew-guy-and-a-history-of-lastminute-leadership-switches/news-story/a2ea8d3ee3542f9c4d3df18c9db992cc
12/08/2022: It would be good if we spent more time talking about important matters as eminent physicist Sir Roger Penrose does here: https://www.whyarewehere.tv/people/roger-penrose/
12/08/2022: The Greens are no different from this today. Nazis. They have all sorts of policies which would starve (at least) half the world’s people to death while at the same time advocating all sorts of animal libber and national parks nonsense. "At the edge of a forest, German soldiers point their guns at rows of naked people who follow the Jewish religion. Among them are young mothers clutching their babies. The shots echo through the woods and the dead bodies fall into the ground. Down the road, while this is happening, their German army comrades are busy establishing nature walks and bird sanctuaries and planting trees. The Nazis conducted horrific experiments on children (I have seen footage so upsetting it can’t be shown on TV) but at the same time they banned medical experiments on animals. The same Nazi monsters who committed crimes of unimaginable barbarity also advocated vegetarianism, organic agriculture, forest preservation and homeopathic healthcare. How can we possibly explain this? What was the connection between the inhuman brutality of the Nazis and their gushing idealization of ‘Nature’?" http://www.martindurkin.com/blogs/nazi-greens-inconvenient-history
12/08/2022: The Great Barrier Reef is nearly as big as Victoria ie it is pretty hard to miss, yet it did not exist (where it is now) during the last Ice Age – just a little while ago, and will not during the next, not so far away now either. The sea level was over 50 metres lower then. Corals exist in shallower water than that. So when folks tell you ‘the science is settled’ re some political decision they want make ie to control your behaviour in some way eg whether you can go for a drive in the country, you should be very skeptical indeed. Scepticism used not to be thought a very bad thing not so long ago but rather a default mental state which helped one to navigate to the truths of the world: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/healthy-reef-defies-dubious-science/
11/08/2022: Tony Abbott could well have said, ‘Apres Moi le deluge’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/labors-climate-bill-is-an-economic-precipice/
11/08/2022: Just imagine the urban mega fires we will have as EVs spread – and the toxic pollution downwind (far worse than any CO2): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/100-evs-mysteriously-destroyed-in-fire-in-india/
11/08/2022: Time to go back to your old stainless steel frypan: https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/forever-chemicals-linked-to-liver-cancer-in-first-human-study/
11/08/2022: Good Lord – maybe Trudeau is Castro’s son. He certainly behaves like it anyway. In similar news Albo admits he is a bastard (Who knew?) but who is his real father? A prize will be offered: https://medium.com/@leibowitt/of-course-fidel-castro-is-justin-trudeaus-dad-nobody-has-debunked-anything-4db6fc8a9042
10/08/2022: A fine birthday present from Bunnings. We went in to Midvalley to have a birthday lunch and thought to buy some seedlings for the vegie garden from Bunnings while we were there. As well we scored this excellent load of 4” x 2” x 8’ steel quite free - probably over $500 worth. Well on the way to our next shed right there:
10/08/2022: Way back
in 2013 I wrote this. The situation has become worse since then. The Green aim to
reduce the world population by half or three-quarters is moving swiftly into
place spearheaded by the attack on Nitrogen and farming: Green
Deaths per annum amount to millions worldwide: Malaria (where the unnecessary
& illegitimate ban on DDT cost over a million lives pa for thirty+ years),
support for biofuels (200,000+ pa from starvation as
we burn food rather than allow the poor to eat it), opposition to food
irradiation (100s of 1000s pa from food poisoning pa), opposition to nuclear
power (deaths from radon, Carbon 14, coal mining etc), opposition to GM crops,
diversion of money (from eg health, shelter, food) to
global warming ‘mitigation’, opposition to Western farming methods (&
especially in the Third World = mass starvation), support for national parks
before people…These folk are simply the most evil bastards ever (making Stalin,
Hitler, Mao etc look like patsies). And it is not just people whom the greens
murder in their millions. Animals and plants are destroyed by their policies in
their billions: millions of hectares have been destroyed to make way for palm
oil plantations and generally to grow ‘Biofuels’.
Other millions of hectares are routinely destroyed by wildfires because of
their insistence on a completely ‘hands off’ approach to forest management. At
the same time vast numbers of creatures are destroyed by introduced vermin such
as foxes, cats, pigs which they will not allow to be shot. Add millions of
wildlife deaths pa from windfarms and from paving
over land with solar collectors & etc… Astonishing that 8% of voters say
they will still vote for their policies. How can so many folk fail to be able
to distinguish between good and evil?
10/08/2022: Why we should make Ivermectin available to all. This article is by a Professor
of Pathology from my old University who really knows his stuff. Currently
nearly 100 people a day are dying in
10/08/2022: The
10/08/2022: Alexandra Marshall’s
article on ‘immortal’ nuclear energy is a ‘must-read’. I am not sure how we
will implement it in
09/08/2022: A bad week for female vocalists. Olivia gone now too. I used to run into her for coffee in the student union lots at Newcastle Uni back in the 1960s – this was before she was famous, but just one of the senior staff’s daughters. Her father Bryn Newton-John shared my love of motorbikes. She was just the same age as me. Makes me think about ‘time’s winged chariot’ I can tell you.
09/08/2022: Your Vitamin D levels are crucial: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/handy-tip-vitamin-d-deficiency-causes-chronic-inflammation-which-means-aging-dementia-bad-stuff/
09/08/2022: This is ridiculous and obscene racist cant. How much of ‘our’ country do we need to give away to just one group: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/08/how-to-give-away-half-a-continent/
09/08/2022: Much as the CCP wants to
frame
09/08/2022: Remember how Tony Abbott
won the largest majority in
08/08/2022: The Seekers – the
beginning. I just can’t help but post yet another tribute to Judith and her
amazing band mates. I know there will not be any Parliamentary Condolence
Debate as with Archie Roach. Have we lost what it is to be quintessentially
08/08/2022: If
08/08/2022: Civil disobedience
against the ‘Green Blob’ begins in the
Meanwhile, the Greens here want us to
be conquered by communist
08/08/2022: The earth’s thermostat is just wonderful. Just as the human body temperature does not get warmer as the temperature rises, so too the earth sheds heat in the tropics as the temperature rises keeping the average world temperature within a very narrow .5C range. Amazing. Thanks Willis: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/07/putting-it-into-reverse/
07/08/2022: Farewell Judith Durham 1943-2022. What a voice. Like most of my generation this is how I will always remember her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpd_9l9w4RI
07/08/2022: Curiosity – what a great little rover: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/05/ten-years-of-curiosity-on-mars/
07/08/2022: Just like the bee
apocalypse, the monarch butterfly apocalypse that wasn’t: https://www.wired.com/story/is-there-good-news-for-monarch-butterflies-scientists-disagree/
07/08/2022: The Greens – turning the
West into the
06/08/2022: Time for some good news: https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/cognitive-decline-can-be-avoided-with-simple-everyday-exercises-new-study-suggests/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
06/08/2022: On the origin of TANSTAAFL: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/08/27/free-lunch/
06/08/2022: Snowy 2.0 (like all the batteries) will be a dismal failure - and now at $22 billion for just 2000 megawatts (Think Hazelwood)! If they really want to replace coal (or petrol) the will have to go nuclear. That is all: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/08/03/how-helpful-is-snowy2-0/
06/08/2022: Just maybe communism is
on the way out in
05/08/2022: One tough old gal. Nice shooting – this is the way to deal with crooks: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/shoot-arm-off-robbers-pick-wrong-socal-liquor-store-rob-video/
05/08/2022: I suspect that if fake meat to save the planet failed because no-one wanted to buy it, fake cars (EVs) will fail too for the same reason: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/planet-saving-fake-meat-burger-meets-hitch/
05/08/2022: I like Viv’s idea of a Repeal Party.
05/08/2022: The
04/08/2022: Personally I love apples, but here’s how they got such a bad press: https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/forbidden-fruit-0017084
04/08/2022: Jacinta Price is a gem. Hers is the only type of ‘Voice’ needed: https://www.theepochtimes.com/virtue-signaling-wont-solve-problems-faced-by-indigenous-community-nt-senator_4633153.html
04/08/2022: Why only once a year? Breakfast has a big effect on my gender. No wait a minute. I meant my waistline: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/germans-will-be-able-legally-change-their-gender-once-year
04/08/2022: Albanese’s 43% means
everything – in case you didn’t know, and/or you voted for it? So it it not ‘just’ electricity but cars,
houses, farming – everything. I can just bet too that none of the
‘savings’
03/08/2022: 78 Years since the Polish Uprising – just one more good reason why you should not give up your guns: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/long-live-the-warsaw-uprising/
03/08/2022: When vast unexplained geophysical happenings like this can occur we should hardly worry about what the human effect on the climate might be: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/earth-just-started-spinning-faster-ever-and-scientists-dont-know-why
03/08/2022: This looks so promising: https://scitechdaily.com/at-last-an-effective-new-treatment-for-chronic-back-pain/
03/08/2022: Nancy Pelosi – Wow! People are never “wholly bad nor good’ (Milk Wood): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/an-important-and-well-written-opinion-piece-under-nancy-pelosis-name-on-visit-to-taiwan.html
02/08/2022: A Government which robs
Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support of
Paul! Will
02/08/2022: I suspect David Archibald is right: large ships and tanks are archaic: https://spectator.com.au/2022/07/we-will-win-chinas-war/
02/08/2022: More links between
ancient
02/08/2022: Coal
production just keeps going up: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/might-be-more-coal-burned-in-2022-than-any-other-time-in-human-existence/
Meanwhile
oil just refuses to run out – wherever we are allowed to poke a hole in the
ground ‘black gold’ pops up: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/27/guyana-suriname-oil-bonanza-to-boost-economies-help-meet-global-demand/
01/08/2022: The Terminator is coming to a battlefield near you: https://www.zerohedge.com/military/ukraine-unveils-mini-terminator-ground-robot-equipped-machine-gun
01/08/2022: Bring it on - Soon we will be able to buy these things to provide carbon-free power to a few thousand homes safely: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/us-regulators-will-certify-first-small-nuclear-reactor-design/
01/08/2022: The ‘great’ reset:
Turning off the heat.
01/08/2022: People are daily
bombarded with the advantages of socialism, but that is all bunk. The free
market is in reality the great liberator. Take these words of
31/07/2022: NASA’s beautiful Jupiter imagery: https://www.cnet.com/science/space/nasa-spacecraft-images-watercolor-vortices-near-jupiters-north-pole/
31/07/2022: James Lovelock (father of Gaia) came to be a supporter of nuclear power: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/why-are-we-so-afraid-of-nuclear-power-2021/
31/07/2022: This was what salvation meant once, “I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” It is wrong to steal other people’s goods. Make your own, or at least do no evil – but that is not what is happening. Great evil is what is happening - in the name of good. Rainbows and gaiety (and especially childhood) ought not to have been so debased. Well said Cassie: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/28/the-other-half-of-the-rainbow/
Peta Credlin’s take is also worth a read: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/peta-credlin-relentless-push-for-inclusivity-is-what-divides-us/news-story/8d1bd0a0ae3a809dd1365b62666f3015
31/07/2022: I think it’s the biggest insider trading scheme and most useless piece of virtue signaling, white elephant hugging nonsense of all time, but I acknowledge you might make (or lose) a fortune out of discreet investments in it: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/30/guest-post-speedbox-electric-vehicles-redux/
30/07/2022: Stunning Footage Of Killer Whales Taking Down A Great White Shark – they are both horrible monsters. I would not want to be in the water with them: https://brobible.com/culture/article/first-ever-footage-orcas-killing-great-white-shark-stunning/
30/07/2022: “Coffee, tea or Bonox?” Maybe you are old enough to remember the ad? In
any case it is still available, and it is still
30/07/2022: In quarter two this year, we were paying an average price of $264 per megawatt hour instead of the $30 we used to pay before they blew up Hazelwood. And it will only get worse.The green dream is just insane, “It would have been cheaper just to build a whole new power plant last year.”: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/blistering-electricity-prices-it-was-the-quarter-the-whole-market-broke-and-australia-spent-12-7b/
30/07/2022: The WEF and all your ‘friendly’ leftie pollies want to destroy your car. Give them the boot: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/world-economic-forum-urges-public-eliminate-ownership-private-vehicles/
29/07/2022: If
only you got paid for it…decades after
retiring from teaching Della and I still frequently dream about it. I doubt any
of our ex-students (some of whom are nearing their 70s) get any subliminal
benefit from this nocturnal behaviour– though I admit
to feeling a desire sometimes to still correct their spelling and expression in
their Facebook posts!
29/07/2022: How can this even happen? Well, whole Ice Ages have occurred when CO2 was much higher than it is today: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/28/climatologists-embarrassed-increase-in-global-co2-levels-accompanied-by-arctic-sea-ice-growth/
29/07/2022: A big ‘hats off’ to these seven guys. Gays might (or not) be ‘proud’ of their particular bent but there is absolutely no reason anyone else should be, quite the reverse. It is only twenty years since homosexuality was officially deemed a mental disorder and a crime in many jurisdictions, something which the consequences of having taken a more lenient approach to it and related behaviour has been shown was a bad idea which will have to be reversed in future – as has already been done in some countries which have been shocked by the excesses: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/australian-rugby-league-players-boycott-game-forced-wear-lgbt-themed-rainbow-jerseys/
For example, when a public health expert has gay unprotected sex with multiple men over a weekend, contracts monkeypox and gonorrhea but blames ‘the system’, are you sure you voted for gay marriage: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/soros-open-society-foundation-employee-brags-sex-multiple-men-pride-event-blames-government-catching-monkeypox-gonorrhea/
I liked this guy’s ‘take’ on the Manly events: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/28/the-other-half-of-the-rainbow/
29/07/2022: Remembering two heroes of the Left who lost their lives on this day 228 years ago. Saint-Just & Robespierre. Today’s leftists (Bandt, Albanese, Andrews etc) are no better - and also care only about unbridled power and control, “A nation generates itself only upon heaps of corpses” – never mind ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions,’ rather ‘devil take the hindmost.’ Every day around the world thousands of people are dying as a result of leftist policies (scores in Oz) – and it will get worse: https://fee.org/articles/the-two-monsters-of-the-french-revolution-who-were-consumed-by-power-and-lost-their-heads-on-the-same-day/
Bastiat had it better, “Be responsible for
ourselves. Look to the State for nothing beyond law and order. Count on it for
no wealth, no enlightenment. No more holding it responsible for our faults, our
negligence, our improvidence. Count
only on ourselves for our subsistence, our physical, intellectual, and moral
progress!”
28/07/2022: Scientists Unveil Periodic Table Of Genders: “The nation's leading scientists unveiled a new periodic table of genders to help everyone keep track of the evolving gender spectrum. Experts are recommending the table be rolled out to schools across the nation and added to each state's curriculum for grades 9-12. The gender table features 114 genders in addition to a wild card space that represents the limitless imagination of the human mind.”: https://babylonbee.com/news/scientists-unveil-periodic-table-of-genders
28/07/2022: How renewables
are killing
It will be a very grim winter over there this year. Many will die: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/uk-lights-out-for-winter-warning-12m-people-will-be-in-energy-poverty/
28/07/2022: No https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/atheist-labor-senate-president-wants-to-dump-the-lords-prayer.html and Double No: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/no-just-no-double-no-nfw-lest-we-forget.html
28/07/2022: What really drives the climate? Well done (again) Viv, “Man’s coal, cars and cattle are puny compared to what nature can do.” : https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/27900/volcanos-oceans-and-weather/
Meanwhile this is where any warming is coming from – a complete corruption of (climate) science): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/27/new-surface-stations-report-released-its-worse-than-we-thought/
27/07/2022: Kemi
would definitely have been the membership’s choice for PM, but the membership
and the people never get to choose. Such is democracy: https://www.commonsense.news/p/englands-new-conservative-superstar?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
27/07/2022: The ‘New Puritans’ are everywhere – just as bad as Oliver Cromwell: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/earlier-incarnations-of-puritanism-ended-when-its-proponents-became-laughing-stock/
27/07/2022: Sack Matthew Guy before we are condemned to another four years of Danistan: ‘To lose one election may be regarded as a misfortune: to lose more looks like carelessness.’ https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/liberals-stop-chasing-the-left-into-the-abyss/
27/07/2022: Regendering archaeology, How absurd: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/how-dare-you-assume-the-gender-of-ancient-skeletons/
26/07/2022: Digital QR Codes will
become a requirement for ‘normal life’ - First
In
26/07/2022: Will (underground
deposits of) natural hydrogen be the ‘fuel of the future’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/24/could-natural-hydrogen-kill-green-hydrogen/
26/07/2022: 5G is just killing the NBN – just as free enterprise will always outperform socialism I long ago predicted this, before they ever began building Rudd and Turnbull’s wondrous white elephant: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/the-nbn-faces-a-slide-in-demand-as-retailers-ramp-up-the-sales-pitch-on-cheaper-faster-5g/news-story/b494697b1b489a248147d171278414f5
26/07/2022: What a crock of s—t
Plibersek’s State of the Environment Report is. Put together by a bunch of
groupie Aboriginal activists none of whom has an
scientific qualification at all! How a woman knowingly married to a heroin
dealer gets to be a Minister of the Crown is beyond me. Is this the most
despicable Government in
25/07/2022: Who invented ice cream - 2500 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastani
25/07/2022: Human history is full of
surprises: These folk could be claiming castles in
25/07/2022: Things are getting serious: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11037405/Fleet-nuclear-submarines-sent-Britain-Australia-warning-China.html?fbclid=IwAR2xbYE3HlPs2ewiET2xGU_aZ2uaKBqJ9Kw09TPO7uJMKlXEzz50z4a99xA
25/07/2022: “If you believe that the
world’s weather is becoming catastrophically – no – apocalyptically
unstable, why would you spend trillions of dollars converting your energy grid
to rely on the weather…?´Alexandra
24/07/2022: There are three maxims of
wisdom (which we should never forget) engraved on the
1. Know thyself.
2.Everything in moderation.
3. Certainty is ruin.
24/07/2022: It’s world Ivermectin day. We (Oz) have 50-80 deaths a day at the
moment from covid and this has been going on all year
now - 11,134 deaths altogether yet most if not all of
these deaths could have been prevented with early treatment with Ivermectin which you can still buy without a script as a
sheep or horse drench (taking the appropriate amount for your weight - as if
you were a sheep each day for 3-5 days) yet it is still banned as a human
treatment in Vic though it has had 90+% efficacy in preventing death/disease
elsewhere (23/07/2022). This is the greatest
crime in
24/07/2022:
24/07/2022: ‘It’s a free country’ – remember that refrain? Imagine even having
to take such an offence as this to court! I got in to deep trouble myself a few
years ago (2016) as I had a credit card knife (a ‘prohibited weapon’ – akin to
a machine gun - was the adumbrated charge) in my wallet. Things got
particularly heated when I suggested to the officers that they should be out
looking for the
23/07/2022: The world’s greatest adventure – paleolithic seafaring. Imagine homo erectus and neanderthal venturing to cross hundreds of miles of open ocean – yet they did, up to 800,000 years ago: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/palaeolithic-seafaring
23/07/2022: An
23/07/2022: The recent ‘heat wave’ in
23/07/2022: Ivermectin is clearly better than anything you can get a script for – but look also at Quercetin (which you can buy from health food shops): https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/new-study-shows-ivermectin-can-reduce
22/07/2022: The ‘Voice’ must be rejected, “Aboriginal activists now want statehood, self-government and an independent legal system for each self-identifying Aboriginal clan that gains native title. And they want the Australian taxpayer to fund it all. This is obviously a program for a radical revision of the Australian federation — all of it in the interests of Aboriginal people, but with no thought about how it could possibly be in the interests of the rest of us.” The history of all this is very interesting (and in fact casts the ‘colonists’ in a very positive light): https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/07/the-voice-hiding-its-content-from-referendum-voters/
22/07/2022: The situation in
22/07/2022:
22/07/2022: This is a great graph in response to the ‘warmists’. As you can see in reality the world has rarely been much colder than it is now: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/21/climate-alarmists-respond-to-the-global-warming-pause/
21/07/2022: Please come back Tim
Smith, Bernie Finn etc. We need an
21/07/2022: “It takes real genius to
have an energy crisis in a nation which is the fifth biggest gas exporter in
the world, the highest value coal exporter, and has the largest reserves of
uranium. In the race to the bottom,
21/07/2022:
21/07/2022: Save the forest, save the
pygmies – yet another reason not to buy the latest iPhone.
A few thousand dead in the Ukraine War yet it is in the papers every day
(and we simply must send aid) but a few million dead in the
20/07/2022: ‘Nothing would be more fatal than for the government of states to get into the hands of the experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge: and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who only knows what hurts, is a safer guide than any vigorous direction of a specialised character.’ Winston Churchill: Rainbows and rubber bullets | The Spectator Australia
20/07/2022: Aboriginal history or pre- history is now a completely banned topic I know, but it is much ore recent than you may think. For example we may no longer delve into any details about Mungo Man since he has been stolen and reburied even though he was proved by DNA analysis to have no living descendants. This author delves into the facts of aboriginal origins however and finds many of them to be much more recent than the conventional narrative which sees aboriginals as ‘the oldest living culture’ even though the San of Southern Africa must pip them by at least 100,000 years even if they could prove a continuous occupation of Australia of 50,000 years which they cannot (as Mungo man’s DNA revealed). Some of them arrived much more recently (actually after the earliest European visits astonishingly enough) but mostly we are looking at an arrival circa 3500 years ago. The distribution of their languages proves this point with great certainty. These are (three) astonishing scholarly articles: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past?s=w & https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past-b3d?s=w & https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past-c2d
20/07/2022: Origins of
20/07/2022: So, as Ian Plimer has also pointed out (25/05/2022)
19/07/2022: Of course they should lock her up: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/norwegian-feminist-faces-3-years-in-prison-for-saying-men-cant-have-babies/
19/07/2022: Why stop with the ‘mentally ill’? Why not get rid of anyone you disagree with? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/canadas_expert_panel_recommends_the_mentally_ill_be_candidates_for_euthanasia.html
19/07/2022: I have been reading with interest Mater’s historical pieces on the ‘aboriginal question’. Misinformation certainly seems to have been the order of the day on this issue: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/16/were-they-that-bad-1-the-beginning/ & https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/16/were-they-that-bad-2-australian-law-as-applied-to-aborigines/ & https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/18/were-they-that-bad-3-flora-and-fauna-act/ & https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/18/were-they-that-bad-3-flora-and-fauna-act/
19/07/2022: You can’t have an effect
without a cause (and vice versa). The satellite data shows the world is (plus)
.06C degrees warmer than the 1975-2022 average though in the tropics it has
been (minus) -.36C cooler than the average. This does not mean that an Ice
Age is imminent but it does mean that ‘global warming’ or ‘climate change’
cannot have ‘caused’ anything in the last 50 years – simply because neither has
occurred, nor are they likely to occur because of CO2 which clearly has about
zero effect on the climate. Note that it was much warmer during the Middle Ages than today (They grew wine in
18/07/2022: How many crimes are down to drunk and stupid: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oklahoma-man-arrested-alleged-slaying-fisherman-fear-eaten-bigfoot-aut-rcna38065
18/07/2022: Why would you vote for either of these parties? Just no choice but madness: https://www.theepochtimes.com/centre-right-coalition-in-victoria-says-it-will-match-labors-50-percent-2030-emissions-target-and-legislate-it_4602897.html
Where the materials could possibly come from to achieve these absurd ‘net zero’ aims is clearly never a bother for its proponents: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/17/sp-chronic-copper-shortages-have-killed-net-zero-2050/
18/07/2022: Why you should be concerned about Postmodernism though it “is total garbage, not based on any kind of evidence or facts, but also not based on logical argumentation or rationality… because the postmodernists reject literally all of those ideas and concepts. Nonetheless, this is what many of your children are now being taught in public schools. They are being taught, just like the postmodernists want them to be, that there is no such thing as truth. They want your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and friends to believe that everything is true, and nothing is true; everything is real, nothing is real; left is right; up is down” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/postmodernism_understanding_the_roots_of_wokeness.html
You could also think about how it impacts on ‘indigenous affairs’: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/07-08/imprisoned-in-the-oldest-continuous-culture/
17/07/2022: Waterproofing Paper Maps:
I know the old John Donne map store in Little
I have betimes laminated a paper map eg when traveling in Fiordland etc - but which makes them significantly heavier!) but for several years now I normally either forego a map, place it in a large snap-lock bag or use a phone app such as 'Paper Maps' and downloaded topo maps such as Vicmaps. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/07/16/waterproofing-paper-maps/
17/07/2022: Floods are what happens
when you build your town on a flood plain (without adequate levies) I note
Singleton’s and Maitland’s have held recently. Plenty of other towns (Lismore?)
are yet to get them - though in
17/07/2022: How the ‘real science you can trust’ actually gets done: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/former-pfizer-marketing-vice-president-explains-how-big-pharma-controls-the-medical-establishment/
You can hardly believe something is ‘safe’ when it has this major effect on 40% of women for example: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/surprise-sideeffect-of-the-covid19-vaccine-for-women/news-story/606ed43f418286282123d7a5026d9b31
16/07/2022: Wide Shoes: If life came with a user's manual and we read it (unlikely - given how little we read other such manuals - else we would not have the acronym RTFM) we would probably give up much sooner. Now that I have slipped gracelessly into old age I am constantly coming across things which had they been in the manual would have filled me with trepidation if not despair. But enough of my woes!
Maybe it was because my left knee has been so worn out for so long and I was walking with such a pronounced and protracted limp but my right foot in particular seems to have been growing ever wider. This has been happening for a number of years. I used to wear size 8 UK Keen Targhees which were more than satisfactory when I posted about them here though I moved up from a Size 8UK to and 8.5UK because of toe problems encountered on the South Coast Track in 2014 walking out to Port Craig as I now recall. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/07/15/wide-shoes/
16/07/2022: How far will this CCP control go and how much will it be copied by puppets in the West: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/beijing-residents-forced-wear-regime-issued-electronic-bracelets-traveled-city-will-track-location-monitor-temperature/
16/07/2022: Weather Dependency. This
is the type if world future the environmentalists see as desirable where all
our energy for example will come from such unreliable sources – but the sun
doesn’t always shine , or the wind blow. But surely
this was the situation not just prior to the
15/07/2022: This is the real scientific evidence that there is no problem with CO2: https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-10-22/s71022-20132171-302668.pdf
15/07/2022: Wonnangatta Murders Revisited: You do have to wonder about Greg Lynn when the case was adjourned whilst everyone prepared more ‘evidence’ for yet more months - in the light of the disappearance of yet another person in the High Country (missing hiker Christos Pittas near Mt Hotham on 13 May).
It would be horrifying indeed if police have the wrong man (as seems unlikely I admit – but they have managed it before eg in the cases of Jason Roberts and George Pell recently for example) but what has been revealed so far anyway about the case is (legally speaking I guess) surely purely circumstantial - even if it seems pretty damning.
I have to admit that when they found the bodies it appeared to me that Lynn must have confessed and told them where they were – but if that had been the case not only would police now know more (eg where the trailer, phones, drones etc are) but he would also surely have pleaded guilty – and we would have been told.
The finding of the bodies whilst he was in custody was either a result of
information gleaned from his phone (but why did he, an airline pilot who ought
to know about such things still have the same phone? And would this be
admissible? Surely you have to have the evidence before you arrest someone?) or it may be that they just began to look whilst he was in
custody along and adjoining his supposed route – and the bodies were clearly
not particularly well-concealed, ie there was a
suspicious level of disturbance leading to them, and so they were found at that
time. I would have been looking much closer to the
This route (via Grant) was also (likely) the route taken by the person in the ‘white ute’ whom police had claimed earlier as the possible murderer. – and likely any number of other people including (obviously) the real murderer whoever that was – if not Lynn, as Parks Vic had not bothered to signpost the Jamieson exit as closed, so many people no doubt tried to get out that way, then when they failed continued on towards Grant.
So far as we know all police have is
Of course if the Christos disappearance is just the latest in a long chain
of unexplained disappearances in the High Country then mayhap the poor old
‘Button Man’ shibboleth will have to be revisited. If more people should go
missing things will look even worse: https://www.bordermail.com.au/story/7748362/after-searching-more-than-a-week-missing-man-not-found-search-over/
15/07/2022: The level of outright treason from the Bidens is breathtaking – this is the sort of stuff which used to lead to execution (still on the statutes there): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/end-of-an-empire-what-if-china-bought-the-us-president-unleashed-a-bioweapon-and-no-one-cared/
14/07/2022: There is
no place for race in our constitution. People who self-identify as belonging to
a race (other than the human race) are the racists. By so doing they invite
others to comment on their own appalling statistics of welfare dependency,
crime, family violence, drug and alcohol dependency, rent seeking & etc -
but that would be illegal in the 'free speech' regime we 'enjoy' - instead of
expecting the rest of us to do something other than continuing to bankroll
them, they should do something about improving themselves - just as the rest of
us quite rightly can be expected to do. Let's have a referendum to abolish the
utterly undemocratic Senate instead - that has been long overdue and would do
some good – and let’s get rid of the awful ‘preferential’ system too while we
are at it which effectively gives some citizens several votes and others only one
(depending on whose preferences get counted. It might be a different matter if
everyone’s were. For example, in the recent elections none of the Teals would
have been elected if Liberal voters’ preferences (a much larger group than any
other) were counted (even twice – as compared with some other people’s votes
being counted even 8-9 times). ‘First Past the
14/07/2022: Really literally no-one would pay to watch/listen to the ABC, so why do we throw over a billion at it annually: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/virginia-trioli-loses-a-quarter-of-her-radio-audience.html
14/07/2022: Good luck taxing the rich
when they’re gone.
14/07/2022: One of the most major
mental defects is seeing problems instead of solutions. As an example of
this real ‘scientists’ eg agronomists and
(electrical) engineers long ago ‘solved’ the food and energy ‘problems’ so that
it is (relatively) easy to produce enough food and energy to supply the
burgeoning world population with a decent diet and lifestyle, and to do this
whilst improving ‘environmental’ values. It is not possible to do so with
‘organic’ agriculture which is disastrously less productive. To feed the
present world population by this C18th (or earlier)
methods we would have to clear all the remaining
wilderness – yet still we would have mass starvation. Such scientists have been
improving on this and other similar features of the world (transport, health communication
etc) for at least a couple of hundred years. You don’t need to stand in the
road and stymie their efforts (as recently happened in Sri Lanka for example or
as is foreshadowed in
13/07/2022: Uvalde only gets worse. Now we learn that a police officer was denied the opportunity to take out the perpetrator before he had murdered any children – but what good would that do for ‘gun reform’? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/new-armed-uvalde-police-officer-clear-shot-take-salvador-ramos-entered-robb-elementary-school-fatally-shot-19-children/
13/07/2022: Yes, this red panda story
is typical of climate misinformation – of course ‘all of us’ would
13/07/2022: The world has been being
run by clowns. As this energy disaster unfolded Boris was planning to ban wood
heating. I think we have a real analogue here with Albanese and Bowen –
imagine having a brace of modern-day Caligulas. At
least if Anthony ‘fiddles while
13/07/2022: Senior police certainly
can get it wrong but this guy
The treatment of Avi Yemeni is another case in point: https://www.rebelnews.com/victoria_police_apologise_to_avi_yemini_over_unlawful_arrests
12/07/2022: We are certainly very happy we still have a wood fire – but how long before the green zealots come for us: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/not-laughing-now-wood-burning-stoves-firewood-short-supply-germany-citizens-fear-freezing-death-due-gas-shortages/
12/07/2022: How does your ‘classic car’ such as a 90s Land Rover (where every part is available replaceable by a home mechanic) stack up against a ‘modern’ car or the latest EV? There is just no comparison. Your classic car is enormously ‘greener’: https://issuesinsights.com/2022/07/05/confirmed-again-the-green-agenda-is-taking-us-backward/
12/07/2022: A fairly dramatic fall in
the birth rate. Activists may not need to worry about abortion as it seems
that the vaccine may do it for them: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/where-have-all-the-babies-gone/
12/07/2022: Zulu – one of my favourite films though I agree with Steyn, it is unlikely it would be made today. Rorke’s Drift remains the single engagement where more VCs were awarded than any other: https://www.steynonline.com/12632/this-butcher-yard-michael-caine-and-zulu
11/07/2022: A walk around the world: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/article/tom-turcich-is-set-to-become-the-10th-person-to-have-walked-around-the-world-his-dog-will-be-the-first/xuh5ani6p?fbclid=IwAR250IjHpnHB2WpWG11dlU_Y48KbVSctVvNs2SXNO1O7lKsHT4-H8W4rljA
11/07/2022: I really hope this is not happening but what experience I have of cyber-bullying and peer pressure amongst the young tells me that it is happening far too much and anyway much moreso than was the case in generations past (eg when people left school at ~15 to take a job as I did) : https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/the_lost_generations.html
11/07/2022: You get banned for stating the bald truth about CO, ie that it is at practically the lowest level ever and only barely above that level needed to support life on Earth. You might not have heard this. I wonder why: https://climaterealism.com/2022/07/linkedin-bans-scientist-for-presenting-inconvenient-truths-about-co2/
11/07/2022: Just in case you thought the people running the Ukraine aren’t Nazis: https://unitedwithisrael.org/antisemism-in-ukraine-envoy-lavishes-praise-on-nazi-murderer-no-repercussions/ & https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-march-in-ukraine-in-annual-tribute-to-nazi-collaborator/
10/07/2022: The eternal solution. ‘God save us’ from folks who think this way. It used to be ‘limited’ to the religious this having goals which will last ‘for all time’ but the nanny staters and communists who have been/are running the world at the present (and many of those who seek to do so) are forever trying to ‘fix’ things ‘for all time’: legislation, regulations, the environment…on and on to a ‘perfect world’. I don’t think so. I would be happier with an imperfect world with lots of real diversity of thought and organisation where things are allowed to just ‘bumble along’ under the operation of ‘natural laws’ such as ‘supply and demand’ ‘evolution’ etc. I am so sick of the ‘none so pure as the pure in heart’ brigade.
10/07/2022: Get ready for a real boom in Far UVC ‘zappers’ – may be the trendoid investment of the day guys: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/far-uvc-kills-viruses-in-minutes-safe-for-human-skin-and-eyes-and-the-chinese-are-installing-it-why-arent-we/
10/07/2022: Things get worse and
worse in
10/07/2022: What kind of sad mad world are we living in that you can’t even feed the birds? Whoever the neighbours, bureaucrats, lawyers and other low-life are who are responsible for this, they deserve an open season to be declared on them. They are the vermin, not the pigeons: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/a-crime-to-be-kind-south-yarra-woman-who-feeds-pigeons-says-shes-the-victim-of-a-witch-hunt/news-story/4e30ae86642af689122674e72d421b16
09/07/2022: Soon a drug which will allow you to live to 200. Bring it on: https://thred.com/tech/drug-that-increases-human-lifespan-to-200-years-is-in-the-works/
09/07/2022: Leo Maglen may not have fought against it but I have, all my life, with every fibre of my being – and I continue to do so, “As the last of our parents’ greatest generation pass away, we are now the elders of our culture. Their fantastic legacy, built with hard work, stoicism, great sacrifice, and a high degree of consensus about what they stood for, is what we should be taking responsibility for defending, preserving and passing on to subsequent generations. Instead we have squandered our inheritance. Whilst we grew up in the era of unprecedented economic growth and prosperity they made possible, we have failed to grasp the lessons they taught us. We were too busy congratulating ourselves on our good fortune and enjoying its fruits to remember the old adages that good times do not go on for ever, and that no-one owes us a living”. https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2022/07/mea-culpa-my-generation-should-have-done-more/
09/07/2022: The Dutch Government has
even decided to expropriate farmers’ land and hand it over to illegal
immigrants – this is the sort of evil you get when you toss away your
national sovereignty and allow yourself to be dominated by green ideologues.
Meanwhile other farmers throughout the EU eg in
09/07/2022: Dire News: NB: Shinzo Abe was shot with a home-made pipe shotgun. He was
giving a speech about the defence of
08/07/2022: PC gone mad: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/man-arrested-for-killing-rooster-in-self-defense-hilarious/
08/07/2022:
08/07/2022: “The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do”. Jordan Peterson
08/07/2022: Unfortunately the scouts have always had a problem with pedophilia but this is utterly ridiculous: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/11/26/delingpole-meet-mistress-the-girl-guides-transgender-commissioner/
07/07/2022: Today’s
07/07/2022: "Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum ." Jonathan Swift: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/cern-atom-smashers-discover-3-new-exotic-particles/
07/07/2022: “But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world”.
Matthew Arnold, ‘
So, the census now shows that
few of us are ‘religious’ and even fewer (still) Christians. Curiously I
decided (for the first time this census ) to write
‘Christian’ on my census form because while I am not a believer, I see myself
as firmly in the Christian tradition. We have thrown out too much with the
bathwater, I think. One of the chiefest reasons for
the decline of Christian belief, Christian tradition and ethics is that most of
the nominally Christian ‘sects’ have long since been captured by the communists
who were long the ‘godless enemy’ – and frankly still are. ‘Wokeism’
in a multiplicity of vile forms has also captured the pulpit (and caused the
congregation to flee elsewhere). We now have that situation which Yeats
described as ‘The best lack all conviction whilst the worst are full of
passionate intensity”. No-one believes anything anymore not least why they
should be good – or even understands what goodness is. Seemingly the ‘moral
life’ is just a grab bag of eclectic slogans having no logical consistency with
each other. There is no underlying ‘rock’ on which a ‘good life’ can be based.
The upshot of this is that civilisation will go down
into chaos and will not rise again for a thousand years (if ever) - as the vast ruined empty cities which dot the
jungles of
07/07/2022: I really hope the 40,000 Dutch farmers are the adults in the room who bring the whole evil chicanery of ‘climate change’ crashing down. Just maybe the people would rather the farmers fed them, and that coal, gas and oil producers warmed them, & etc than just wait while the green bureaucrats and pollies bankrupted, starved and froze them: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/climate-change-a-religion-built-on-blind-faith/ & https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/how-the-green-eu-starves-the-world/
06/07/2022: Poem for Today:
W.H. Auden: Roman Wall Blues
Over the heather the wet wind blows,
I've lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose.
The rain comes pattering out of the sky,
I'm a Wall Soldier, I don't know why.
The mist creeps over the hard grey stone,
My girl's in Tungria: I sleep alone.
Aulus goes hanging around her place,
I don't like his manners, I don't like his face.
Piso's a Christian, he worships a fish;
There'd be no kissing if he got his wish.
She gave me a ring but I diced it away;
I want my girl and I want my pay.
When I'm a veteran with only one eye
I shall do nothing but look at the sky.
PS: I feel a bit like this old soldier guarding the borders against the barbarians, however I feel that civilization is being overwhelmed.
06/07/2022: This is just such feral
madness. BTW
06/07/2022: Most of these ‘traditions’ were invented by people still alive today (like Ernie Dingo for example who admits to having invented the ‘smoking ceremony’). “If Australian leftists want to continue inventing Aboriginal traditions, they obviously need to lift the quality of their research. In fact, we would all be better off if they gave away the whole tawdry game.” https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/07/sacred-traditions-invented-yesterday/
06/07/2022: This is the thin edge of the wedge. I certainly hope these Dutch farmers prevail against the ‘green blob’. The ‘madness of crowds’ has to be answered with the sanity of the grown-ups: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/how-the-green-eu-starves-the-world/
05/07/2022: I think people were more likely to do this sort of thing 100 years ago even though there is clearly more wilderness out there today: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/37769-Canoeing-with-the-Cree-A-cool-American-story.html
05/07/2022: Things you should know.
All life in earth basically depends on the tiny enzyme rubisco
(Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase)
which is what drives photosynthesis. Its productivity can be increased
enormously (at least to four times) by increasing the proportion of CO2 in the
atmosphere – as people normally do in greenhouses. When there was much more of
it in the past there was a vast profusion of life therefore. The quantum of
life has reduced gradually as its proportion in the atmosphere declined
arriving at its lowest point during the last ice age. We
05/07/2022:
05/07/2022: What a lot of racist
nonsense all these ‘aboriginal’ flags are. We really don’t need to be
divided by any such spurious basis as ‘race’ – a vile outdated C19th concept. Let’s just have the one national
04/07/2022: Fascinating, beautiful noctilucent clouds: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/rare-clouds-that-glow-in-the-dark-are-the-most-vibrant-in-15-years/ar-AAZ5Nks
04/07/2022: The ‘last testament of George Macdonald Fraser published on the occasion of his death (in 2008) – a must read. There is not much here (if anything ) I disagree with: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-506219/The-testament-Flashmans-creator-How-Britain-destroyed-itself.html
Another 100 year old veteran expressing much the same view, “the country is going to hell in a handbasket”: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/100-year-old-decorated-veteran-breaks-crying-not-country-fought-video/
04/07/2022: A harbinger of things to
come –
04/07/2022: When I studied High School Science 60 years ago we learned about the ‘Carbon Cycle’ amongst other such ‘natural’ cycles. But NB they were ‘cycles’. Over a period of time carbon was cycled through the world’s natural systems eventually finding its way back to where it had begun. It would be most unfortunate for life on earth (composed as it is of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen) if this was not so – else life would clearly (soon geologically) cease. Carbon does get ‘locked up’ for awesome periods of time (eg in ‘fossil’ fuels and even moreso in carbonate rocks (like limestone). Fortunately there are also natural processes which ‘unlock’ it or after a while there would be insufficient to maintain life on earth. After a long succession of Ice Ages this is just about the situation we find ourselves in. It is a moot point whether life itself could survive another ice age when the CO2 in the air was dissolved in the oceans to such an extent as to be insufficient (in the atmosphere) to maintain photosynthesis. The so-called ‘pre-Industrial’ level of aprox 250ppm is just about the lowest limit consistent with life on the planet. In any case life would not survive its falling a further 100ppm whereas there was a wonderful exuberance of life in earlier geological eras when it was in excess of 20,000ppm…“Bjorn Lomborg…shows clearly that the risk of death from extreme weather events in 2020 is a mere 1 per cent of what it was in 1920” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/07-08/the-madness-of-net-zero/
Of course there is also a Nitrogen
Cycle (nitrogen composing 70% of the atmospehere
if you have forgotten and not .04% like CO2). At present the Dutch Government
is so concerned about nitrogen they are trying to shut down farming (just like
03/07/2022: Who’d have thought – the Jurassic dinosaurs loved the cold, just like the Tuatara. No doubt they were warm-blooded and as woolly as any mammoth: https://scitechdaily.com/study-of-ancient-mass-extinction-reveals-dinosaurs-took-over-earth-amid-ice-not-warmth/
03/07/2022: So the AEMO has a $300+
billion plan to ‘ditch’ coal and replace it with something which any child
ought to be able to
see would not work! Great! We pay these idiot bureaucrats far
too much. Also, whilst there is zero ‘problem’ with (heat from) CO2 which is
wholly beneficial in every other way - note the vast increase in forested areas
(and life) as a result of adding it to the atmosphere – an area roughly three
times
03/07/2022: Wadeye – what a terrible place. This is not a solution to anything. We really should not keep such hell-holes going. I for one would not be picking up garbage and s—t left behind by my able bodied students. I would never be a servant. They in turn need to learn (whether they be black white or brindle) that if they want to have a living they need to do something for that living otherwise it should be withdrawn: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2008/12/wadeye-failed-state-as-cultural-triumph/
03/07/2022: When I was a small boy
02/07/2022: Now the Census shows that the majority of ‘us’ are members of the ‘Third Wave’ maybe it is time for constitutional recognition of this group through having their own representatives. I am myself a member of the Second Wave so a completely downtrodden group nowadays: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/identity/2022/06/a-voice-for-wogs-huns-balts-poms-and-paddys/
02/07/2022: The notion of ‘customary law’ (a vile idea) is just another reason to reject the concept of ‘separate development’ in Oz, or ‘apartheid’ as it was once called. Frankly it made more sense in SA – probably still does, as the country is now dominated by one tribe: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/06/traditional-culture-is-the-problem-not-the-solution/
02/07/2022: I like what the Supreme
Court has been doing in the
02/07/2022: If there is so much ‘global warming’ why is it getting colder? The Tropics (for example) are registering down .37C compared with the forty year average. The world as a whole is only up .06C degrees. These are very trivial variations from an enormously stable climate. Why is the climate so awesomely stable? Do you suppose the alarmists have overlooked a huge thermostat which controls the weather? Almost certainly: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/01/satellite-data-coolest-monthly-global-temperature-in-over-10-years/
01/07/2022: I wonder whether this space-plane will ever fly? I’m sure Al Gore and his associates will want one though: https://www.ladbible.com/news/latest-hypersonic-jet-take-you-anywhere-on-earth-within-one-hour-20220617
01/07/2022: These guys are just getting too big. Soon they will be muscling us out of our homes: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/new-bacterium-roughly-the-size-shape-of-an-eyelash-smashes-size-record/
01/07/2022: Is there a solution to our electrical crisis? We should listen to the experts. This guy is an expert: https://latrobevalleyexpress.com.au/news/2022/06/29/comment-a-look-at-the-current-electricity-landscape/?fbclid=IwAR2VesUFqhVJRc4cKAdaYlIU8Eru40O8Ag-FBkR-HY2NWlopfMSh5tga9j4
01/07/2022: The invasion of the
30/06/2022: Some very big fish still
in the
30/06/2022: Greta’s mess – this is
the rubbish left behind at
30/06/2022: Interesting to see a graphic of the kind of limits on abortion folks are talking about. Few people would argue against a ‘morning after’ pill. Most would be OK for the first 4- 6 weeks. After that the situation gets increasingly complex. Clearly after around 20 weeks when the baby could survive birth it becomes a very grey area indeed. You are after all always talking about taking a human life: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/europe-has-more-restrictive-abortion-law-than-u-s/
30/06/2022: I completely agree with this (and it’s not an improvement), “Christian doctrines have simply been replaced by hard-line secular ideologies, which are frequently more dogmatic, intolerant, and hostile to non-believers, blasphemers, and apostates… ‘What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?’” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/christianity-becomes-a-minority-but-religion-is-on-the-rise/
29/06/2022: Well, 1000km on a single charge – who’d have thought? https://newatlas.com/automotive/mercedes-eqxx-1202km-ev-range-record/
29/06/2022: Thank you Jim Steele. A ‘must read’. An educated layman’s explanation of how the ‘greenhouse effect’ actually works and why CO2 is not a problem at all, “So beware of anyone telling you that increasing CO2 is increasingly trapping heat and causing a climate crisis. They are either ignorant of the science, or dishonestly manipulating your thinking to advance their political agendas” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/28/media-claims-co2-traps-heat-a-big-lie-or-a-big-stupid/
29/06/2022: The head of the British Army speaks out – a long read but a worthwhile one. We will ignore him at our extreme peril: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/british-army-chief-i-intend-to-mobilise-the-british-army-to-deter-russia.html
29/06/2022: Listen up Lysistrata: abortion is not contraception. Instead, it
is a very serious decision to kill a baby. Should this be a ‘right’ for just
one parent though eg right up to the moment of birth? Imagine the furore
if only male parents had the right to kill their children: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/democrats-go-on-sex-strike/
28/06/2022: Not so long ago we measured
our standard of progress by how many
millions of tonnes of steel and coal we produced
(for example), but the West as been giving up such progress, while
28/06/2022: Mostly from the poor to the rich as it turns out! “At least the leftist Potsdam Institute’s Professor Ottmar Edenhofer has the courage to say out loud what is becoming more obvious by the day. ‘One has to free oneself,’ he says, ‘from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth’.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/perhaps-in-the-next-life/
28/06/2022: I think we can learn from the French police: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/27/climate-activists-discover-french-police-dont-use-glue-solvent/
28/06/2022: What utter bulls—t: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/australias-health-department-provides-78-word-answer-to-what-is-a-woman.html
27/06/2022: Oz is back in the space race – a very long while since ‘Blue Streak’: https://www.skynews.com.au/business/science/nasa-launches-rockets-from-northern-territory-space-centre/video/5879fe829043008e2766d7c0b5783080
27/06/2022: The Atomic Bomb – it
wasn’t just the war against
27/06/2022: Has the great green unraveling begun? One can only hope: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/climate-pledges-vanish-in-europe/
27/06/2022: Yet another ‘aboriginal
26/06/2022: Another baby mammoth – soon they will have enough of these little guys to bring them back from extinction: https://yukon.ca/en/news/mummified-baby-woolly-mammoth-found-gold-miner-klondike
26/06/2022: Perhaps getting your flu vax is a no-brainer after all: https://scitechdaily.com/flu-vaccination-linked-to-40-lower-risk-of-alzheimers-disease/
26/06/2022: Justice for Justine? Any
day I expect they will declare an open season against Aussies in the
26/06/2022: Do you suppose Walt himself would support all this gay stuff? I remember both Mickey and Donald only having nephews rather than children but they did both have girlfriends (who strangely enough only had nieces): https://www.dailywire.com/news/disneys-strange-world-film-to-include-openly-gay-teen-romance & https://ace.mu.nu/archives/399695.php
25/06/2022: The sad decline of English. You can tell neither Della nor I is still there: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/06/the-vicious-circle-in-the-teaching-of-english/
25/06/2022: Great news for the deaf (like me) I don’t think. What, every time I need to change my hearing aid batteries (every few days) I will have to do so with some kind of miniature screwdriver? Great: https://www.9news.com.au/national/new-australian-laws-on-button-batteries-take-effect-today/c5053294-ebd3-48a6-a8e9-145004a69758?ocid=social-9newsP
25/06/2022: This is a British Medical Journal study: “The excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest surpassed the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalization relative to the placebo group in both Pfizer and Moderna trials (2.3 and 6.4 per 10,000 participants, respectively)”. Yet such dangerous vaccines were (and still are) mandated and even inflicted on children at almost zero risk from the disease itself: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4125239
25/06/2022: In the US they have a coalition of dark political forces people are calling the ‘Uniparty’ and which I long ago called out as ‘fascism’ which defies ‘populism’ or what we used to call ‘democracy’ ie ‘the will of the people’. We have been seeing this in Oz too with the election of the awful ‘Teals’ and ‘Greens’ to so many seats and now with the election of a ‘Labor’ Government by only 32% of voters. These are dark days my friends: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/this-is-how-democracy-dies-not-in-darkness-but-in-plain-sight-live-on-c-span/
Michael Baume explains how all is not yet lost (though it certainly seems that way): https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/business-robbery-etc-95/
Meanwhile the Supreme Court’s decision is to let the citizens decide (what the constitution intended). Of course such an ‘undemocratic’ decision will be met with violence and rioting: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/06/24/read-it-heres-the-supreme-courts-basis-for-overruling-roe-and-casey-n2609277
24/06/2022: Here’s a neat puzzle: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a39818039/missing-square-puzzle/
24/06/2022: The Science is Proven:
24/06/2022: “No good deed goes unpunished.” Why ‘aid’ never works – a must read: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/06/a-needed-farewell-to-alms/
24/06/2022: The reality is that every
day the Ukrainians are losing hundreds of soldiers. They have also
irrevocably lost the East of their country which is responsible for 80% of
their GDP to
23/06/2022:
23/06/2022: The
23/06/2022: Chris Bowen is simply nuts. There is no such thing as ‘firmed renewables’ and possibly never will be, however there has been cheap safe nuclear power for over 70 years: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/21/aussie-energy-minister-nuclear-advocates-are-dangerously-ignorant/
When times get tough people want coal: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/europe-wants-coal-austria-netherlands-switch-on-old-coal-plants-poland-pays-for-coal-to-homes/
23/06/2022: The greens have always been vermin. Surely one day an open season will be declared on them: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/vermin.html
22/06/2022: 10 Times Socialism Actually Worked: https://babylonbee.com/news/10-times-socialism-actually-worked
22/06/2022: Blame Trump for the recession! I notice we are starting to get the same meme from the Albanese Government here – the disasters they are currently creating were all Morrison’s fault. Of course: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/predictable-democrats-now-blame-trump-historic-inflation-numbers-video/
22/06/2022: Finally we begin to learn that the Uvalde school massacre was down to police failing to do their jobs (rather like the LIndt Café siege) or were ordered not to do their jobs. Just imagine they were standing in the corridor outside with loaded rifles and bullet-proof shields with only an unlocked door separating them from a perpetrator who was massacring children one by one: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/breaking-uvalde-official-admits-policenever-touched-door-see-locked-breached-video/
22/06/2022: We voted for this? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/new-labor-senator-i-want-to-normalise-hijab-wearing.html
21/06/2022: Maybe they just got old – we are both having difficulty opening jars now: https://babylonbee.com/news/anthropologists-believe-that-all-female-amazon-tribe-collapsed-because-nobody-could-get-any-jars-open
21/06/2022: Good news I guess, but do I want to know – surely I just forgot where I left my keys: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-brain-scan-alzheimer-disease.html
21/06/2022: It would be very disquieting if one of the purposes of the mRNA vaccines was human sterilisation: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-the-covid-vaccine-paper-on/comments
21/06/2022: When will Oz realize we can’t get by without fossil fuels and that huge investment is needed to replace those useless ‘renewables’ with a reliable power supply: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-fire-up-coal-plants-as-russia-turns-down-the-gas/a-62182321
20/06/2022: A line by line
explanation of the
20/06/2022: “If we want the best for our kids, we can’t
outsource parenting for 40 hours a week while they turn our children into
little Marxists.” – Kirk Cameron
20/06/2022: Great headline: Earth to Bowen – we need the power on 24/7: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/peta-credlin/peta-credlin-insane-energy-policy-makes-power-more-expensive-and-less-reliable/news-story/42b435abbb393f5772d55a98dc726afd
19/06/2022: A robot in your brain: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-microrobot-device-brain-hemorrhages-due.html
19/06/2022: Happy 80th Paul MCCartney: https://quillette.com/2022/06/18/mccartney-at-80/ & https://pjmedia.com/columns/chris-queen/2022/06/18/happy-80th-birthday-paul-mccartney-n1606221
19/06/2022: Australian prehistory we are no longer allowed to investigate: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past?s=w & https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past-b3d?s=w & https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past-c2d?s=w
19/06/2022: Of course Ian Plimer is right: there has never been a single shred of evidence that human emissions cause ‘global warming’ or that it will even be (again) as warm as it was was in the Middle Ages just 500 years ago when they grew wine in Scotland and farmed in Greenland: https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/aussie-life-74/
18/06/2022: Otherwise known as ‘the blood battery’! A very good question: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/08/is-it-ethical-to-purchase-an-ev-lithium-battery-powered-vehicle/
Why not use them to back up ‘the blood panels’? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/06/bidens-blood-panels-suspect-solar-panel-import-restrictions-eased/
18/06/2022: How poor renewables really are: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/global-woe-the-transition-has-stalled-the-world-is-using-more-fossil-fuels-than-ever/
18/06/2022: Who would have thought that Keating’s introduction of compulsory superannuation would be a financial disaster: https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/would-taxpayers-be-better-off-if-superannuation-never-existed-20220617-p5aug7?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0QRrHtaIUhpzhcOzQ1aKeCi2tqXi_cnNDAGbJ8OtCPo3IUfEPUyFf8PR4#Echobox=1655449751
17/06/2022: Who would want to be a police officer in these circumstances. The policeman had to respond astonishingly quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09g2tNGHrg
17/06/2022: God is no longer a man – and other woke follies: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/catholic-mass-converting-to-celebration-of-woke-welcome-to-country-god-gets-regendered-climate-refug.html
17/06/2022: These are the guys who
brought us ‘stagflation’ last time – see photo (Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden).
Nothing to worry about here surely: https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/06/15/here-comes-stagflation-n1605413
But consider this, if Joe Biden seriously wanted to
destroy
17/06/2022: The cost and replacement cycle of renewables is just astonishing. No way can any country afford this nonsense: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/06/16/guest-post-dr-faustus-mondays-experts-on-the-energy-crisis/
16/06/2022: One lucky cat: https://wafflesatnoon.com/cat-on-hang-glider/
16/06/2022: The engineering and economic costs of ‘green hydrogen’ make this ‘solution’ actually impossible. Think again emerald darlings: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/14/hydrogen-is-unlikely-ever-to-be-a-viable-solution-to-the-energy-storage-conundrum/
16/06/2022: Yes, “Mental Toughness is particularly worth promoting among the young, a stance that seems at least somewhat at odds with today’s self-care narrative. Says Chawla, “I would define mental toughness as grit. Tenacity. And a fairly big chunk of that is having some discipline over your own impulses—doing things even when your mind is objecting. This idea is now reviled in mainstream culture in favor of approaches such as, ‘be gentle with yourself.’ [But] if you’re always gentle with yourself you will stagnate and grow weak and fragile.” If our goal is to uphold and not erode mental toughness, it is surely unhelpful to applaud iconic role models for extolling fragility” https://quillette.com/2022/06/12/the-burden-of-the-best/
16/06/2022: Scary: Couldn’t fight our way out of a wet paper bag: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/china-rising-the-adf-have-nothing/
It is all too likely that (as we have almost always done) we are preparing for the last war but not the next: https://richardsonpost.com/adam-piggott/27408/the-paradigm-shift-in-war/
15/06/2022: F Break: F Break is
at the end of ‘The Cape’ Road off the
Mind you, no-one much is walking or camping along the beach itself. You can
walk all the way from
It is a very pleasant day walk from Harmers
Haven to
15/06/2022: Vitamin D it appears is good for many things: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/one-in-six-dementia-cases-might-be-avoided-with-vitamin-d/
15/06/2022: As energy prices rocket and shortages increase I suspect for many of us winter will mean huddling in bed together as (poor) folk have done for much of history (or die): https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/communal-sleeping-history-sharing-bed
15/06/2022: The Truth about ‘Aboriginal Culture’ – and what happened to it: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/06/the-voice-and-the-end-of-traditional-aboriginal-culture/
15/06/2022: Tough times ahead. In the
14/06/2022: Ultralight Towel: Of course the very best ultralight towel is none at all - but you might not enjoy waiting (maybe in a cold wind) to dry off (though you will). It's not so bad in the summertime but can be a tad testy in the colder weather. The same strategy can be applied to clothes washing - and I have done so for many years, ie just put them on wet after I have washed them as best as I can in the river (without soap). Usually I manage to dry them some overnight eg with the clotheslines in my tents, but not always.
They will be dry in around fifteen minutes on your body if they are the (modern) quick-drying type. This is a fairly rigorous regime of a morning I admit. I always dress in my wet clothes immediately before I set out. You do get used to it. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/06/12/ultralight-towel/
14/06/2022: When an elephant doesn’t like you, you’d better watch out: https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/elephant-tramples-woman-to-death-then-attacks-her-corpse-at-funeral/news-story/015696d8a245a347f8c7f75963dfc494
14/06/2022: There are worse things around than covid, the Black Death for example which could make a comeback anytime: https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/gruesome-nose-bleed-fever-death-toll-rises-to-at-least-18/
14/06/2022: So, do you really think
13/06/2022: Remember ‘Mike’ the computer from Heinlein’s ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress’ who ‘wakes up’? Well, his name is Lamda. Seems to pass the ‘Turing Test’ as a sentient. I can’t tell. Can you? I have known any number of human beings who could not give as good an account of themselves as this. Scary stuff: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/straight-sci-fi-movie-google-suspends-engineer-sounding-alarm-companys-dangerous-sentient-ai-lamda-robot/ & https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917
13/06/2022: Ingenious DIY
This ultralight wood stove has been designed to burn damp, wet or frozen sticks with minimal preparation and should burn much better than natural draft stick burning stoves when using wet sticks. The blower creates a very hot fire on one end of the sticks. While providing intense cooking heat, the stove also heats and dries the incoming fuel sticks, so that they will burn easily when they enter the burn chamber adjacent to the blower air jet.
The Large/Single- ultralight blower stove rolls up to fit in its own large pot for backpacking. It will cook one large pot at a time. However, with a bit of rock trickery, it can also heat another large pot. It has an ultralight titanium body and an anodized aluminium pot. The titanium stove can be rolled up and all parts pack up inside the aluminium cooking pot. Read More: Ingenious Ultralight Blower Stoves
13/06/2022: NZ has decided to starve people to ‘save’ the planet. Not long before farming is banned altogether. The wicked witch must go: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/09/new-zealand-introduces-a-climate-change-meat-tax/
13/06/2022: During this cold wet weather it might be good to reflect that bushfire management has been hijacked by the greens so that conservation is gone for good and lives will be lost: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/the-incredible-international-fire-climate-conference/
13/06/2022: The Ugly Truth about electric vehicles… Raping the earth: https://www.cfact.org/2022/06/07/is-it-ethical-to-purchase-a-lithium-battery-powered-ev/
12/06/2022: DIY Fire Blower: I had been looking at some of erstwhile DIY genius Tim Tinker’s posts, eg Solar Fire Blower, Blower Stoves and USB Fire Blower so I decided to order some 5 volt laptop PC cooling fans from Aliexpress. They cost me US$1.40 each! The 3/4″ (19mm) plumbing fittings were also only 50c or so from Bunnings.
As you can see I have cut one of the fittings down then glued it with Araldite to the cooling fan. I did this so I could attach a roll-up stainless steel foil tube to it (which I did). You could just make the tube by pop-riveting it together as well as pop-riveting it to the fan. This would provide some distance from the heat of the stove you were trying to hyper-oxygenate.
Read More: DIY Fire Blower
12/06/2022: Alas, due to PC ours are no more, but this is
how
12/06/2022: And now for the good news: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10902055/Are-verge-cure-cancer-week-scientists-announced-breakthroughs-vaccine.html
12/06/2022: Indeed, enough is enough. Some great suggestions here, “Four decades of failure to invest in the infrastructure needed to supply our growing population with basic services like water, power, gas and fuel while unwisely investing our limited capital in the black hole of so-called renewable energy and climate change abatement has left our economy incapable of competing with the rest of the world.” https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/australia/2022/06/broad-thoughts-on-a-better-australia/
Viv outs the energy madness pretty succinctly: https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/planned-chaos-in-australias-power-generation/
12/06/2022: More electric car nightmares – why do people even bother: https://americandigest.org/noted-in-passing-hey-lets-drive-all-the-way-from-chi-town-to-new-orleans-in-an-electric-car-itll-be-fun/
11/06/2022: It is a problem isn’t it? While I do believe people should have the option of escaping an intolerable situation (if they wish to) they certainly should not be pressured to do so: https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/the-potential-danger-of-assisted-dying/
11/06/2022: This is just about always
the case with mass murderers ie they are mentally
ill, give every
11/06/2022: The climate disobediently keeps defying warmist doomsayer predictions. Where did this cold come from? Enjoy the snow season everyone: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/expert-scientists-wrong-again-bumper-snow-season-kicks-off-in-australia/
11/06/2022: Imagine if lithium is declared an ‘environmental hazard’ (which it clearly is – much worse than lead): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/10/top-producer-albemarle-risks-shutting-german-plant-if-eu-declares-lithium-a-hazard/
10/06/2022: Just an experiment –
apparently Facebook will take this cartoon down as
they don’t understand satire, or are just too ‘woke’.
10/06/2022: Long since time to encourage kids to ‘look out the window’ especially at ‘the best that has been thought and said’. If teachers do not ‘lift’ children, maybe no-one will: https://nypost.com/2022/06/01/expert-idiocy-on-teaching-kids-to-read-is-beyond-comprehension/
10/06/2022: Recession. Hold your hats, here it comes folks. (And you probably voted for it). This is what you get from foolish ‘spend-a-thons’ which did nothing to mitigate a (deliberate) yet slight ‘pandemic’. To think there are millions of young people brought up with a naïve belief in socialism who have never known a recession. They have a lot to learn. Maybe time to start that veggie garden, or downsize the house and car. Ditch private education. Forget about foreign travel and eating out in restaurants: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/world-bank-signals-global-recession-saying-essentially-no-rebound-expected-several-years-average-inflation-ahead/ & https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/08/mortgage-demand-falls-to-the-lowest-level-in-22-years.html & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/biden-economy-recession-way-us-gdp-six-months-row-october-2021-last-high/ & https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/australian-residential-land-value-to-gdp-ratio-now-higher-than-japan-at-height-of-1989-bubble/news-story/140872e9ed0fffb9e9a544d3ed68d1fd
10/06/2022: Important thoughts about
the Western – a genre I love, “But life for an average citizen of the
western community—that is, apart from the railheads, cattle towns, and gold
strikes—was far safer than life is today in
09/06/2022: Paragliding could be fun - a young bird I guess: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/nature-is-awesome/
09/06/2022: A long trip in an EV is
just about impossible (and probably always will be). You have to think
about that (greater than 50%) reduction in range, then how long it takes
(relatively) to fill the tank. Think of miles long queues at the roadside
servos. And then if it gets very cold there will be frozen dead folks huddled
in stalled EVs all along freeways. Incidentally they
also ‘save’ actually zero carbon when you figure our their
total ‘footprint’ – as if that mattered anyway and the world was actually
(negatively) affected by CO2. It was much warmer (and colder) in the past with
and without it. Think 20,000ppms during Ice Ages or
the Vikings living happily in a (forested)
09/06/2022: Unfortunately there is an
increasing need for self-protection. The boom in home security products
highlights this fact. Police only ever come along and pick up the pieces. They
do very little to prevent such incidents if in fact some ‘woke’ police
practices don’t even encourage them. I agree that you need a weapon which will
deliver multiple very damaging shots quickly. A larger
caliber semi-automatic or heavier gauge shotgun are obvious choices. For
everyday carry clearly a pistol would be a great idea – but we have been unable
to protect ourselves in Vic for nearly a century (after having been able to do
so for hundreds of years). During this time crimes against the person have
increased hugely. In (future) occasions of heightened (economic) and other insecurity
the situation will only worsen. The government does nothing to protect us
(quite the reverse) when it denies us the opportunity and right to protect
ourselves. Too often the government is the problem, not the solution: https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/07/because-the-ar-15-can-deter-a-mob/
09/06/2022: SADS = Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. This may have something to do with that sudden 21% increase in the death rate I posted about yesterday. You will be hearing more about this: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/sudden-adult-death-syndrome-because-young-people-die-just-like-that/
08/06/2022: Interesting visual
illusion. I’m sure the ‘blob seems to grow for you too:
08/06/2022: Why are so many of us suddenly dying – a 21% increase in the death rate would have to be worrying, surely. No wonder the hospitals and ambulances are overwhelmed: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/overall-deaths-in-australia-where?s=r I guess over 1,000 excess deaths in Vic so far this year. Not so many as the 1919 ‘swine flu’ perhaps but when we add up the totals world-wide for this artificial bioweapon (when the final tallies are in – whenever) we will see many millions – all down to the CCP and their ‘running dogs ‘ in the ‘capitalist’ West who sought to profiteer and/or gain prominence via them.
08/06/2022: I always find Bettina Arndt to be interesting and refreshing, “Somehow, we need to convince Coalition politicians that they have long been bleeding votes from ordinary folk who have had a gutful of seeing women endlessly privileged whilst the men they love, their fathers, sons, brothers, and friends, are pushed to the back of the bus and at every point denied fair treatment” https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/pandering-to-women-wont-save-the-libs/
08/06/2022: Stranger and stranger: Apparently the BBC has some difficulty with the concept that if you are a lesbian you can be raped by a ‘woman’ with a penis: https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/rape-victims-testimony-changed-to-avoid-misgendering-attacker/
07/06/2022: Oldest most famous baby passes: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ann-turner-cook-original-gerber-165519712.html
07/06/2022: 1,000 Starships to Mars. Elon thinking big. Maybe time you read Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Mars’ Trilogy too ($6.52 from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Mars-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B000QCS914) : https://www.theepochtimes.com/musk-plans-to-build-1000-starships-to-transport-1-million-people-to-mars-a-fleet-of-modern-noahs-arks_4513578.html
07/06/2022: The covid death data is very strange (https://www.covid19data.com.au/deaths). For example, can anyone explain why Vic has (if anything) a higher death toll than NSW and indeed nearly half the nation’s daily toll whilst having only one quarter of the population? Is maybe Dan’s wonderful Health Dept not doing such a great job? Indeed, could more be done to reduce this awful toll? Is there any reason really for not ensuring that people have adequate Vitamin D and Zinc levels or are treated expeditiously with Iodine (nasal spray and gargle) on earliest infection and with Ivermectin, Hydrpxychloroquine etc to reduce these terrible numbers. Could Dan actually want us dead? We are up to an average of nearly 20 a day in Vic now (an annualised toll of over 7,000!) https://infogram.com/1pk2mjgqvrqwv0t9r2nn6k3qnlb51w6gdg
07/06/2022: The WEF, “You’ll Own Nothing. And You’ll Be Happy.” So full of creepy ideas (and people of Scottish backgrounds!) Let’s cancel this awful talkfest: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/top-10-creepiest-and-most-dystopian-things-pushed-world-economic-forum-wef
06/06/2022: Amazing behaviour from bison – I have witnessed similar ‘grieving’ with our sheep. They are not ‘just dumb animals’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twN5udogfwc&t=67s
06/06/2022: What sort of state/world are we living in where 2537 children are being completely neglected and 65 have even died? It is easy enough to fix this. It does not need a huge injection of cash, just a return to common sense: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/concerning-backlog-impacting-vulnerable-victorian-kids/news-story/4f36dd5a2745085ed5fdb55430169148
06/06/2022: This young ‘lady’ is going to find getting ‘dates’ a whole lot harder: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/how-class-snobbery-put-a-tradie-on-trial-for-rape/news-story/d03a9e95bda665418305749389cf8119
06/06/2022: This is bizarre: Why for
the UN is one mosque massacre so much worse than countless church massacres?
When Moslems have killed 60,000 Christians over the last ten years: https://richardsonpost.com/raymond-ibrahim/27256/which-massacre-is-more-important/
Here is (just) the latest
05/06/2022: Taking ‘bending over
backwards’ to new extremes: https://twistedsifter.com/videos/a-mongolian-contortionist-broke-the-guinness-world-record-by-performing-the-marinelli-bend-for-over-four-minutes/
05/06/2022: A mother showed the kind of courage (and rationality) the police are paid for. Listen to what she says: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/guts-plus-mum-should-be-compulsory-viewing-for-all-police-recruits.html
05/06/2022: The whole green energy boondoggle is a dangerous fantasy: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/green-energy-chickens-coming-home-roost-bruce-thornton/ & https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/06/australian_voters_have_set_themselves_up_for_a_green_nightmare.html
05/06/2022:
04/06/2022: Why did ‘global warming’ stop as long ago as last century. It’s such a spoil-sport. At least it could wait around until all the suicidal economic measures fail to have any effect: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/evidence-suggests-global-warming-ran-steam-years-ago-experts-argue-global-temps-remained-flat-20-years/
04/06/2022: Demographic change is a killer. Actually I am astonished that ‘average’ family incomes anywhere are nearly $120K – where did we miss out? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/progressive-parties-are-the-party-of-the-rich/
04/06/2022: “The
04/06/2022: “It follows that, if it happened now, net zero emissions would result in death by starvation of several billion people.” John Reid: https://blackjay.net.au/managing-austerity/
03/06/2022: Happy Birthday Pebbles: https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/south-carolina-dog-oldest-living-world
03/06/2022: Hundreds of elderly
patients are presenting and many dying from hypothermia (in their own homes) in
Now Dan’s fracking
ban starts to bite as well: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/victorias-gas-supply-problem-wont-go-away-quickly-according-to-industry-leader/news-story/95eac6f7a18e3ef5cf1a77813fa7ae16
03/06/2022: Once we could have saved ourselves in 15 years – now, I’m not so sure. We have not trained a single nuclear engineer this century: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/amazing-what-the-west-could-do-france-went-from-0-to-56-nuclear-reactors-in-just-15-years/
03/06/2022: Yes, when 19 people are murdered the real facts are important: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/tucker-some-things-in-uvalde-dont-make-sense/
02/06/2022: Go, Johnny, Go: https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/johnny-depp-wins-defamation-case-against-amber-heard/video/a0422c89d6581ff7dabcfaa6e3391b81
02/06/2022: Divide and rule in ‘
02/06/2022: A painful birth? Is there anything you can not do to ‘save the planet’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/follow-the-science-painful-births-might-improve-the-weather-if-we-go-anesthetic-free-will-we-hold-back-the-tide/
02/06/2022: Auron
MacIntyre’s ‘Rise of the Midwits’
is an astonishing revelation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9agM261CSJU&t=549s
01/06/2022: Even
01/06/2022: After the sausage finally dies… “land no longer needed for meat production could be used towards progressive ends, such as the creation of worker-owned farms, returning land to Indigenous nations and peoples, rewilding, and other conservation uses” It is unclear though whether these good folk will be paying us for our Jeeralang hills or whether anyone else actually wants to do the work of looking after them: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/31/the-misguided-meat-vortex/
01/06/2022: Why can’t the folk of
01/06/2022: It is a very different
‘diverse’
31/05/2022: Destroying a 1,000 year old forest to build wind turbines to protect us from an imaginary (CO2) threat makes me both sad and angry: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/cult-of-green-because-no-1000-year-old-forest-is-complete-without-industrial-wind-turbines/
31/05/2022: Undoubtedly the worst thing the Liberal Party has done recently is to expel Bernie Finn. It needs more such principled conservatives, not fewer. The National’s dumping of Barnaby is another such folly: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/05/a-tough-week-to-be-a-victorian-liberal/
31/05/2022: 14 lessons from the Uvalde tragedy: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/wayne-root-14-lessons-every-conservative-patriot-learned-tragic-texas-school-shooting-hint-democrats-will-shocked-horrified/ Even more significantly: https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/we-overlook-a-significant-factor-in-mass-shootings-fatherlessness/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=android_nyp
Of course schools can be protected (like banks): https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/there_is_a_way_to_stop_school_shootings.html
31/05/2022: Heinlein’s crazy years:
Man dressed as woman in wheelchair shouting "think of the earth"
hurls cake at Mona Lisa painting.
30/05/2022: Not nearly enough data (yet) really – eg the average age/health status of the victims. Still 1740 dead this year (only four months of 2022) is a lot: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/professor-peter-doherty-theres-no-zero-baseline-for-determining-vaccine-efficacy/news-story/cab6080a3d67b4590d80770cb4890629 The greatest wickedness is that (still) long-established prevention and treatment are not being widely used. These elderly people are often still poor in zinc and Vitamin D for example which would help prevent respiratory infections. They also do not have access to cheap effective remedies as the first line of action ie, Betadine nasal spray and gargle (to reduce viral load) and eg ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine which have both been shown in hundreds of studies to reduce illness and death rates.
30/05/2022: Cannon-Brookes really intends to close down the remaining coal-fired electricity
generators ASAP. He has clearly got control of AGL today. This is the same
strategy which eliminated the mountain cattlemen in Vic, ie
basically greens buying up assets then closing them down. Unless there is
public or government intervention (unlikely now) this will quickly result in
electricity shortages and economic collapse which will blight the rest of our
lives. Wake up
30/05/2022:
God (or the Govt)
help us if MIT don’t know: “To enable economical long-duration
energy storage (> 12 hours), the DOE should support research, development,
and demonstration to advance alternative electrochemical storage technologies
that rely on earth-abundant materials. Cost, lifetime, and manufacturing
scale requirements for long-duration energy storage favor the exploration of
novel electro-chemical technologies, such as redox-flow
and metal-air batteries that use inexpensive charge-storage materials and
battery designs that are better suited for long-duration applications.
(Emphasis in original.). The feds will “support research” into “novel
technologies,” of course using the infinite money pile, and the technology will
magically appear. And what exactly is the technology that will then emerge to
rescue us? They have no idea” : https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-5-26-mit-weighs-in-on-energy-storage
(Long) before you decide to mandate something you need to know that is actually
feasible. To power a large city (
29/05/2022: Another problem with electric windows. I think people are just too enamoured of electrical gadgets. I predict that the fear of being incinerated/drowned will seriously affect the uptake of electric vehicles: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/tesla-catches-fires-at-intersection/
29/05/2022: Still (Always?) playing ‘catch-up’ on Defence: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/if-threats-of-a-pacific-war-became-reality-how-prepared-is-australia/news-story/b77751f7d2b40b06be70e5f60695b1bf
29/05/2022: How much truth is there
in the story of
29/05/2022: One week out and the Labor Party still doesn’t have a majority. It is looking more like an awful Labor-Greens coalition: https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HousePartyRepresentationLeading-27966.htm
28/05/2022: Fawcett’s lost cities of the Amazon really did exist: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lost-cities-of-the-amazon-discovered-from-the-air-180980142/
28/05/2022: If only we were a little
more like
28/05/2022: Forget about giving more power to commie shill Tedros: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/who-chief-wants-to-run-the-world-for-china-biden-boris-albanese-is-ok-with-that-but-africa-puts-the-brakes-on/ & https://www.facebook.com/100059886518825/videos/584238123039468
28/05/2022: In Oz our security services manage to prevent many of these horrific incidents because just like these latest two incidents in the US there is frequently prior warning, but we are now 24 hour surveilling around 1,000 folk (that we have been told about): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/retired-federal-agent-regular-communication-buffalo-shooter-may-advance-notice-gendrons-plans-murder-black-people/ & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/two-unnamed-boys-age-shooter-arrested-2018-planning-columbine-style-shooting-uvalde-school-2022/
Wow! That was close! What a hero
though: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/photos-of-off-duty-border-agent-who-killed-salvador-ramos/
27/05/2022: A Japanese man now identifies as a dog – you can be whatever you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpyUgXyTXhc
27/05/2022: What the world ‘needs’ right now – a carbon footprint tracker and carbon ‘rationing’, but not of course if you need a personal jet to fly to Davos: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/alibaba-president-shares-world-economic-forum-carbon-footprint-tracker-technology-individuals/ Remember back in 1972 when we had ‘just’ 10 years to save the planet: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/climate-nazi-wants-to-track-your-climate-footprint/
27/05/2022: You thought it was over? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/south-australia-has-gone-mad/ PS: You can now have Novavax as a booster if you refuse mRNA vaccines.
27/05/2022: Realistically the DIY FGC-9 semi-automatic spelled the end for gun control measures. Mental health measures (as well as better - especially school - security) might just be more useful in preventing awful disasters like Uvalde. We are not immune here in Oz: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/building-the-fgc-9-getting-started-with-3d-printing-part-1/ Imagine there being no-one (and no thing) in the school to prevent (or respond to) such an event. Imagine also the police waiting outside preventing eg parents from entering – remember the Lindt Café siege - (for an hour) while the maniac murdered the children until he was shot by an off-duty border officer!
26/05/2022: The Thanatosdrakon “dragon of death’ with a 30 foot (10 metre) wingspan – sure glad this guy isn’t still around here: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/05/24/argentina-scientists-discover-dragon-of-death-fossil/8821653431164/
26/05/2022: Can you believe Bob Dylan is 81? Oh, we are getting ancient here at Jeeralang Junction too: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/not-dark-yet-contd-6.php
26/05/2022: More about the Jan 6
conspiracy – the
26/05/2022: The tyranny of climate
compliance: The cheapest new car in Australia (at present ie
May 2022) is the Mitsubishi Mirage (Drive away A$17490) approx 700 km range: https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/the-10-cheapest-cars-on-sale-in-australia
Say you drove it for twenty years (300,000km) then
threw it away. Annual (capital) cost is
$1500 per year. Most of us can afford that. For comparison, the Jones
family ‘normally’ buy a second-hand (often damaged eg
by hail) car for around $1500 with around 150,000km
on the clock. We usually have little trouble driving them for a further 150,000
km (or ten years!) without spending any money except on tyres,
oil, spark plugs, filters, brake pads, shockers perhaps – all work done myself.
I have a paddock full of them as proof! They are probably still worth
$500-$1000 so let’s say an annual cost
of approx $100 per year – at most $150! We have been doing that for forty+
years! The cheapest electric car in
25/05/2022: Cats: I have been
wondering about them. We haven’t had one for very many years ourselves
(though I quite like them personally) and also have a vermin-proof fence so
foxes are excluded (even though I admire foxes but do not appreciate them eg eating all our lambs). Like everyone else we have had a
rodent plague (especially this year) which other predators (owls, hawks etc)
have not kept up with. I have been wondering whether the ‘demonisation’
of cats is at all justified. A few years ago I discovered (evidence from the WA
government’s cat and fox baiting strategy)
that targeting foxes alone ended up causing a larger (90%!) drop in
native critters (because of the build up of cats whom foxes also predate) than
actually doing nothing. This rather surprised me. Over there they decided to
target both together and developed a bait for cats (unavailable in the East
apparently). I have always noticed that cats kill a really lot of rodents – at
least ten times (I reckon) the number of birds they also unfortunately do take
(one of the reasons we don’t have one). However, we have had this dreadful
build-up of rodents and possums (and because someone is feeding them) of
kookaburras. All these things are known dreadful predators of birds. Many small
birds have almost disappeared from our garden (despite the vermin-proof fence).
Eg we have not seen a wagtail for nearly two years.
The last one/s we saw were disappearing down the maw of the kookaburras. I am
actually wondering whether the anti-cat strategy is actually harming birds
because of the build-up of these other nasty predators which cats would help to
control. Rats and possums (particularly) eat a huge number of eggs and baby
birds. PS: I notice the emerald folk are now calling for the banning of rodent
poisons – if successful, that should add a further disastrous element to this
ecological apocalypse! I really hope
25/05/2022: Apparently there are people who didn't realise this was satire.
25/05/2022: Another Earth – maybe somewhere to go to get away from this mess: https://www.sci-nature.com/2022/05/its-official-astronomers-have.html?fbclid=IwAR3zPXnPmL5ewNYo3fxIxfmkCZ-3Yefg6YlV8yzp9q9l-5tp0tFPYHSSwlU
25/05/2022: Demographic change is a
killer – in the long run it will be more of a killer for Labor if the Libs decide to
man up and concentrate on winning the hearts and minds of real working
Australians, “the Coalition now holding 16 of the 20 poorest federal seats.
From the
These are people who weren’t born into wealth but work hard to create financial security for their families. They care about energy costs more than emission targets. They care about their children being properly educated rather than indoctrinated in school. They love their country and are not embarrassed by it like so many privileged and self-loathing Greens and teals” https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-the-teal-mps-were-expecting-to-wield-enormous-power-but-are-now-redundant/news-story/9d77556decdce4322387d36109d00221
25/05/2022: Astonishing:
24/05/2022: The Liberals were warned (repeatedly), ‘Go Woke, Go Broke!’ Why you should subscribe to The Spectator even just the free to read three articles per week edition (however it only costs $4 a week for full digital access). If you had you would have received this (Double Shot) gem today by Alexandra Marshall,
“The Liberals were warned (repeatedly), ‘Go Woke, Go Broke!’ If nothing
else, this federal election served as a reckoning against the soggy, wet,
gangrenous Liberals sitting in wealthy
As for voters, what happened on Saturday was entirely predictable. It has long been said that Climate Change is a death cult. Its architects have spent years terrifying children and guilt-tripping their wealthy parents. The only thing left to do was sit this guilt-ridden privileged class in front of a polling booth and offer them a way to ‘virtue signal’ out of sin. It was like dropping a coin into the collection plate. One vote – guaranteed saviour status. The consequence of this selfish action will be felt by the poorer electorates next door who already struggle to afford the necessary energy to heat their homes in the freezing Winter that isn’t supposed to exist.
All of us must pay extra tax to sate the original sin of fantasy climate guilt, but when the apocalypse fails to manifest and all the sacred relics and priests are de-frocked, a different sort of blue sea will rise. Editor Rowan Dean said it best on Sunday morning, ‘Scott Morrison and the Coalition did not lose government last night. They lost it on November 1 last year, when Scott Morrison stood in front of an adoring crowd of climate cultists in Glasgow and committed Australia to the ridiculous pledge of “Net Zero by 2050”.’
Conservatives have tough years ahead of them, but according to some commentators, this may have been the election they needed to lose in order to expel the wets and rebuild the base. As for the Teals, Greens, and Labor, the problem with building the foundation of a political party on a fiction with an imminent deadline is that the deadline will come to pass – and then what? As Andrew L. Urban writes, Climate Change is the wolf that isn’t there. While Climate Change’s use-by date sits a few years off, Kristina Keneally finally failed her way into oblivion (we hope), managing to lose one of the safest Labor seats around. Thank heavens for small miracles”.
You would also be able to read this subsequent excellent piece by Alexandra: https://spectator.com.au/2022/05/decarbonising-the-liberal-moderates/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MDS%20%2020220523%20%20GK&utm_content=MDS%20%2020220523%20%20GK+CID_e903cc33f023769f15f174016ae820a0&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=De-carbonising%20the%20Liberal%20moderates
24/05/2022: Steve Kates
is also always worth a read. I particularly liked his quote from ‘Bruce’
from
That’s because the voters demand this stupidity. The MSM demands it. The whole of the nation is stuck in a lemming-like race to disaster which only a literal disaster will crack the people out of.
The Covid arc illustrates this. You had guys like McGowan immensely popular for converting his entire state into a prison camp to save the people from a virus so innocuous that people often don’t know they have it. It took two years of disaster – closed businesses, lost jobs, lockdowns, vaccine injuries, masking and elderly parents dying alone for the people to suddenly, overnight, get over it. Now the pollies don’t mention the virus and it’s like it never existed.
The people haven’t yet gotten to this point on the climate scam, but they will once the pain really amps up. Which it is just starting to, particularly electricity and fuel prices. But with the elites all Believing like religious fanatics even that’s not going to be enough. Saving the world syndrome is a very powerful hubristic drug. It may take a full-on political apocalypse to stop these people saving us from an apocalypse which isn’t happening”: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/05/22/about-as-bad-as-it-could-have-been/
24/05/2022: You have some power after all, How to hide your house on every map app: https://www.popsci.com/diy/hide-home-map-apps/
24/05/2022: Already – a link between Monkeypox and the
23/05/2022: The Life & Adventures of John Nicol Mariner, 1822. You should read this (for free) He
came on the Lady Juliana (1791) so has interesting first hand observations of
early Sydney Town, particularly the behaviour of our
‘indigenous’ denizens whom he found utterly reprehensible: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600031h.html
23/05/2022: They told us this?
23/05/2022: A (bare) majority Labor government with less than one-third of the primary vote! I think this though really was ‘the elephant in the room’. There was zero mention during the election campaign about the ‘climate’. Had there been the outer-suburbanites and rural folk who need to be able to drive cars, have electricity, air cons, wood fires, sheep and cattle and maybe a holiday somewhere else some day would have shouted a big negative ‘No!’ against the greens and like-minded dim-witted people, just as they did when Tony famously admitted that ‘climate change is bullshit’ – as it is. We need a seismic shift to the right in politics, and a lot more truth. Perhaps now the Libs have divested themselves of most of their green fifth columnists it may happen. The older I get the less I want to live in what the world has become. : https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/the-secret-climate-election-we-didnt-know-we-had/
22/05/2022: Should we
send them a reply? https://notthebee.com/article/fifty-years-ago-astronomers-detected-what-is-considered-the-best-evidence-of-an-alien-radio-signal-from-space-now-one-astronomer-says-he-may-have-found-out-where-it-came-from
22/05/2022: Monkeypox (a smallpox variant). Is it another ‘gay plague? Anyway the WHO missed it: https://thehill.com/news/ap/ap-health/monkeypox-spreads-in-west-baffling-african-scientists/amp/
Just so sanitary. Forget hand sanitisers and masks: https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/18646557/monkeypox-outbreak-europe-cases-island-festival/
22/05/2022: Remember
how they tried organic agriculture in
Will our next PM be
Dutton or Hastie?
21/05/2022: The
‘democracy snags’ at Yinnar were so good I may go
back and vote again a couple of more times. In retrospect I see I should
have bought a lot more of them – before they are banned because…cooked on gas,
made from beef, methane emissions, etc, etc
21/05/2022: It begins - if you haven't voted yet , do so now. Remember back in 2013 (under Labor) how there were over 100 illegals arriving every single day. since Scott not a single one: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/federal-election/federal-election-2022-live-updates-from-key-electorates-polling-booths/live-coverage/2848ff10c6528c74baf9a400c613af24
21/05/2022: The Voyage of Pytheas: https://www.ancientpages.com/2021/05/29/pytheass-voyage-to-the-arctic-in-325-b-c-and-account-of-thule-the-strange-land-beyond/?fbclid=IwAR0WGF4bVpsLtXjIVqSf8qGdcJ8b1qsP1qLBb7Bq-4AsUx0a-gXiXP-uYDs
21/05/2022: Just a nonsense idea in
the first place. We have been able to manage (approx 50-80 year) rotation
of sustainable logging in state forests for 150 years whilst preserving the
very critters which are now being moved into ‘National Parks’ protection just
to be destroyed by vicious uncontrolled wildfires. The greenies really do hate
the bush: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/110m-plantation-bid-fails-victorias-timber-shortage-to-worsen/news-story/f9d63028249a536e6acc44832b962f04
21/05/2022: That was a good idea then (This is no ‘junk’ study either). New Study Finds mRNA Vaccines Actually Hurt Long-Term Immunity to Covid Compared to the Unvaccinated: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/new-study-finds-mrna-vaccines-actually-hurt-long-term-immunity-covid-compared-unvaccinated/
Furthermore those awful masks actually increased your risk of death. Great: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/another-study-confirms-wearing-masks-increases-infection-covid/
21/05/2022: Even on
election eve the almost the largest single voting bloc is people who say “a pox
on both your houses”. 29%. A record by a long shot. Neither the pollsters
nor anyone else can say where all these people's preferences will end up. I am
one of them and I know but there are several million others and only a handful
of us need to swing one way or another. It is obvious to me that we cannot risk
another government dominated by the Green nightmare but it will be an
interesting night tonight: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/election-day-anything-but-the-uniparty-majors-a-record-29-of-australians-want-another-choice/
One thing I note, the changes to the Senate voting system (clearly intended to
make it harder for minor parties to obtain a ‘quota’) could just as easily lead
to the last couple of Senate places failing to get a quota at all! So what
happens when (after successive half-Senate elections) the Senate is still
undecided? I for one am heartily sick of the two major parties colluding
in this way (as they have with several changes to the voting system over the
last few years) to ensure that one or other of them has to form government. Such collusion is in fact fascism.
Unfortunately Steve Kates is right. Let’s hope he is not also a Cassandra: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/05/21/it-would-be-a-madness-to-allow-labor-to-govern-if-it-is-at-all-possible-to-prevent-it/
20/05/2022: Soon from Apple ‘augmented reality’ ie the reality they want you to see: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/19/apple-gave-mixed-reality-headset-demo-to-board-of-directors-report.html
20/05/2022: How would we fare in an intergalactic war? I think Stephen Hawking was right – we should keep a low profile: https://interestingengineering.com/how-to-stop-alien-invasion
20/05/2022: After electing left-wing
governments in the
Do you want a liar as PM, someone who isn’t even eligible to stand (because of his dual citizenship): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/the-abc-publishes-photo-of-mr-and-mrs-carlo-albanese-to-help-their-son-with-section-44-citizenship-d.html Someone who has never had a job (other than with the left wing of the Labor Party)? https://spectator.com.au/2022/05/history-stands-against-albanese/
20/05/2022: So it seems our ‘masters’ pocket huge sums in Swiss bank accounts so Pfizer & etc can experiment on us: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/would-350-million-from-big-pharma-be-enough-to-buy-fauci-and-nih-approval-who-knows-its-a-secret/
19/05/2022: When a frog tries to mate
with your boot we know something is wrong but when a human male tries to mate
with someone other than a female we see it as the ‘new normal’. Oh come on: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/frogs-keep-mating-with-the-wrong-things/ar-AAXnLCy?ocid=BingNews
19/05/2022: Elon will need to get a much better bargain if he buys Twitter: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/quick-tell-the-investors-twitter-is-a-kindergarten-for-communists-not-there-to-make-profits/
19/05/2022: This ‘pandemic treaty’ will end our national sovereignty and hand control of us over to faceless WHO bureaucrats – not to mention the CCP: Australia set to sign Geneva’s Global Pandemic Treaty | The Spectator Australia & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/another-un-who-power-grab-global-pandemic-treaty-is-a-trillion-dollar-business-deal/
Notice how the WHO has stopped the spread of monkey pox for example: https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/05/18/monkeypox-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-smallpox-like-virus-detected-in-the-uk
19/05/2022: Morrison on Government:
“It’s time to get the hell out, time for you to get your life back. You’re in
charge again, you’re back in the driver’s seat, you’re sick to death of state
governments and everyone else telling you what to do.” Exactly. You know
that’s all you’ll get with the socialists. A reminder: Penny Wong as Number 2!
“
18/05/2022: Is it a doorway on Mars – sure looks like one but they would have to be tiny people. Nature is full of surprises: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/nasa-rover-spots-a-doorway-on-mars/
18/05/2022: When diversity isn’t so good: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/diversity_isnt_always_good.html
18/05/2022: Classic Albo: “I don’t run away from Press Conferences": https://scontent.fmel16-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t42.1790-4/280784471_1160895668077891_6343683890560388774_n.mp4?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-6&_nc_sid=985c63&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InN2ZV9zZCJ9&_nc_ohc=7Gdpg9o657kAX_rRC_E&_nc_ht=scontent.fmel16-1.fna&edm=AN6CN6oEAAAA&oh=00_AT8Q1doIlHNZcxT8M0yhvenJI6QvZy_rxyfGyb26L-tDlw&oe=62844D38
18/05/2022: Long-term climate data
such as the
18/05/2022: Choose freedom not socialist control on Saturday. Surely you recall the difference in approach between the Liberal and Labor states over covid (NSW vs Vic for example) . Dictator Dan here in Vic is just Anthony Albanese writ small if we give him the power federally: https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/we-re-all-paying-for-a-new-world-of-big-government-20220512-p5akua?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1AzB6yMM3S6fOw4st69MPUCMkkVpoEne8gfh7L3nHFPMMmzK6tL-zI-98#Echobox=1652428920 I liked Tony Abbott’s new motto over the weekend: Vote Lib for “lower taxes, more freedom, better defence”.
17/05/2022: What a gutless incompetent tool Albo is – he won’t release his costings (Thursday) until the Libs can’t reply with any advertising about it. How contemptuous of the Australian people can you get? https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/anthony-albanese-grilled-by-reporters-over-transparency-around-budget-deficit-before-scrambling-out-of-press-conference/news-story/878123cb0767e71870605423c041237e
17/05/2022: Food shortages – something real to worry about for once: https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/india-bans-wheat-exports-food-security-threat
17/05/2022: It’s not just his memory: Albo is seriously dumb and just can’t do sums. Why would you want this retard in charge of your country? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10817387/Anthony-Albanese-confuses-minimum-pay-rise-1-hour-1-week.html?ito=social-facebook_Australia&fbclid=IwAR0we-rC_mnPMMqnVsYGBuqPS90n6IlIB-_lW8eH4GxVoqn6mGFY9s_s-YM
17/05/2022: Sky News host Sharri Markson says this election is “neck and neck” and it is not a “certain victory” for Labor. I hope she is right: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/sharri-markson/this-election-is-neck-and-neck-sharri-markson/video/b998882dfcaf5b77218361945fad755d
17/05/2022: The
This guy is quite right though – such crimes certainly merit the death penalty, quickly and without undue fanfare: https://www.city-journal.org/execute-buffalo-shooter
16/05/2022: A million-fold increase
in computer speeds would see the human race become redundant: https://scitechdaily.com/laser-pulses-for-ultrafast-signal-processing-could-make-computers-a-million-times-faster/
16/05/2022: Don’t you just love
‘anachronisms’? eg: https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/ancient-wheel-0010997?fbclid=IwAR1cGl2FJYQTXLBHFT4O3dF8HKdOPfEsy8iMFyRyOXlUMVP76VrQZ3ItmZE
16/05/2022: That YouGov poll the other day alarmed me too but with a sample size of 125 per electorate it is just a nonsense – besides who answers the phone to these anonymous people any more? Labor voters apparently, probably because they are more credulous. The election will be decided by those ‘undecided’ voters who certainly don’t vote early. Besides, as the Lib’s ‘campaign opening’ yesterday shows, Scott still has a few tricks up his sleeve: https://www.news.com.au/national/voters-should-take-new-poll-predicting-labor-victory-with-a-pinch-of-salt/video/d05cec9c519b9ac22d2a7f5a3f84baf6
16/05/2022: “This pandemic treaty is the greatest power grab any of us has seen in our lifetime”, Neil Oliver. If you did not know, we are rushing to sign up to yet another international treaty ceding our sovereignty to unelected international bureaucrats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gafV6YhhnAQ
15/05/2022:
15/05/2022: 45 years: Gone for a very long walk indeed: https://indefiniteleave.com.au/story-john-the-highway-man/?fbclid=IwAR3LspqrjpCuyOTPAmjPvhty1EAkvd2I2GtKeAQVelXR0NPON8oJ0gxQ-h8
15/05/2022: Seriously worrying: Are the Covid vaccines killing people over time? The data suggests yes: https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/are-the-covid-vaccines-killing-people-over-time-the-data-suggests-yes/
15/05/2022: That Bastard Albanese? A man who still lies on his electoral nomination form that he doesn’t know who his own father is - even though he has explained extensively to the ABC that he does and has met him and now claims to be Italian - is not fit to be PM: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/albanese-now-openly-italian-good-thing-for-the-court-of-disputed-returns-to-know.html & https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/compare-contrast-albaneses-electoral-nomination-form-dated-15422-with-what-he-told-the-abc.html NB: Several years ago (You remember?) every other ‘dual citizen’ had to resign &/or repudiate their other ‘citizenship’ or they were not eligible to hold office – but not Albo apparently.
14/05/2022: A magic weight-loss pill? Maybe not. I know that for me (most folks I suspect) it's always too many calories: https://doctorbuzz.substack.com/p/a-new-drug-will-help-you-shed-50?s=w
14/05/2022:
14/05/2022: ‘Too dumb to be PM’ - Of course this is true Michael Kroger – the guy can hardly talk and can certainly not hold a fact in his head for a minute. You would have to be as dumb as dog s—t yourself to vote for such a Bozo. My guess is that the huge ‘undecided’ mob (27% at least) are not that dumb: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/michael_kroger_says_albanese_is_too_dumb_to_be_prime_minister And have you thought for a minute about the nightmares life would be like under a Labor-Greens Government. Here’s just two examples: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/labor_is_locking_up_cattle_stations_and_turning_them_into_carbon_farms & https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/aussie_manufacturers_are_shutting_factories_because_of_expensive_and_unstable_energy
14/05/2022: “Keeping you safe and sorting out the lies is your job” (not Twitter’s), Bill Maher. We have always been surrounded by lies and propaganda of one sort or another. Each ‘side’ will always say that the other’s ‘lies’ are ‘false’. Up to now you had (and were allowed) to make up your own mind – a difficult process I admit, but your essential freedom to choose; now Facebook, Twitter, Google etc can do that onerous chore for you. Some thoughts from Victor David Hanson to make you wonder: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/victor-davis-hanson-imagine-unimaginable
13/05/2022: You know the world has gone completely mad when Madonna gives birth to a tree: https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/05/11/madonna-scanned-her-whole-body-for-charity-including-her-you-know-n1597043 You can even ‘win’ a 3D model of her vagina: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/madonna-selling-3d-model-of-her-vagina-in-nft-graphic-auction/news-story/d5af9f9f06025440ce61aa33ecb1e87c & Yes, it’s true: https://motherofcreation.xyz/
13/05/2022: Do we want to become like
13/05/2022: Good advice, “Never trust people who are called experts by others or who call themselves experts. Almost all have an agenda. People should question everything they are told, especially if the source is the media, the government, entertainers, or educators” : https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/why_does_anyone_continue_to_treat_people_as_experts_when_they_are_so_consistently_wrong.html
13/05/2022: The evidence keeps pouring in showing the utter failure of all COVID mandates yet we have wasted billions and lost our precious freedoms over them – all for nothing! https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-evidence-keeps-pouring-in-showing-the-utter-failure-of-all-covid-mandates/
12/05/2022: A New Knee: As you may know I have been having trouble with my left knee (especially) for quite some time – around nine years in fact. I have tried just about everything to make it better as the posts I Kneed You, A Cure for Knee Pain, & Knee Cure News will make clear to you, but finally it became too much and I just had to ‘bite the bullet’ so to speak and go for a complete replacement. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/12/a-new-knee/
12/05/2022: "The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks." - C. S. Lewis.
12/05/2022: May have to get one of these jet-packs as I am certainly not walking up mountains as quickly or easily as I once did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLrVxEJ7pZ8
12/05/2022: The perfect murder - if only he had hired an excavator: https://www.foxnews.com/us/south-carolina-heart-attack-killed
12/05/2022: Personally I just can’t
believe the polls – an Albanese Government would be an economic disaster, just
as the Andrews Government has been for
09/05/2022: Holy Cow: https://www.skynews.com.au/business/science/helicopter-catches-space-rocket-booster/video/fa8c73c26517148012e6a8ca397e937b
09/05/2022: New
09/05/2022: Ask yourself: Do we want a repeat of these clowns – and a leader even worse than Ju-Liar? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/federal-election/federal-election-2022-tony-windsor-rob-oakeshott-reject-independent-chaos-fears/news-story/6e5c831a98ea96eed8c80d560598733e
09/05/2022: How
07/05/2022: What if we have been profoundly wrong about children: https://accordingtohoyt.com/2022/05/05/what-if-weve-been-profoundly-wrong/
For example: https://freemansperspective.com/children-must-be-made-to-work/
07/05/2022: Should we have a nuclear
war over
07/05/2022: Lakes Entrance: It’s
lovely to take a day off during the warmer months and spend it driving up and
back to Lakes Entrance (Gippsland). Because of the
awful fence they have now built down the middle of the road between
A refreshing walk across the bridge at Lakes to look at the beach and study the bird-life is just about de rigeur but mostly we go up so we can buy a heap of fresh school prawns from the fishing boat there. They usually cost around $25 a kilo but they are the very best prawns you have never eaten. We always by a few kilos so we can have a few really good feeds over the next few months. Somehow we never buy enough and always run our before the next summer! Della and I managed to eat a whole kilo between us for tea! https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/07/lakes-entrance/
They are so much more delicious than the ‘cardboard’ prawns you are used to
eating from the supermarket or fish shop. They take my mind back to when I was
a small boy growing up around the shores of
07/05/2022: A print of this painting has been on my bedroom wall for maybe 75 years. I had never been able to determine what it was before but now (thanks to the magic of Google – and Della) I know it is by this guy George Philibert Charles Maroniez 1865-1933. I can see that I can buy a hand-painted reproduction (not this painting) for A$433.85 delivered which I think I will go with – though I would dearly love a better copy of the one I have which my mother must have cut out of a magazine when she was decorating my bedroom before I was born. https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Georges-Philibert-Charles-Maroniez/Sunset.html He did many similar paintings some of which can be bought for $5-10K. I may also consider that. It is unlikely that they will reduce in value after all.
07/05/2022: Interesting thoughts about ‘the spectrum’: https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/is-autism-really-a-spectrum/
07/05/2022: Yes, Pauline is right about Albo’s ‘housing plan’. It is a plan to remove home ownership, not to enable it: https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/26876/pauline-hanson-is-right-labor-housing-plan-is-great-reset-down-under/
07/05/2022: Can’t afford to buy in
07/05/2022: More bad news about mRNA vaccines (like Pfizer and Adenovirus vector vaccines like Astra Zenica) - stuff that was concealed all along behind a push to conform. This has so harmed the traditional vaccine approach which is what should have been used all along. Too much new stuff rushing at us from all directions: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/pfizergate-new-documents-confirm-vaccine-goes-to-liver-spleen-and-ovaries-in-animal-studies/
PS: We are apparently still seeing that ‘excess mortality’ - in younger groups: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/shock-video-equity-investment-executive-dowd-excess-deaths-running-around-20-first-quarter-2022/
07/05/2022: Sterilisation yet? Don’t I remember safe, effective and available contraception happening somewhere back in the 60s? Did I miss something? Isn’t there a huge unmet demand (from already sterile couples) to adopt ‘unwanted’ babies and to provide them with very good lives – and hasn’t this been the case in fact for generations? I can agree to a ‘morning-after’ pill (especially if women have been raped), even to procedures up to say a ‘fetal heartbeat’ point (ie about six weeks in – usually plenty of time to find out whether you are pregnant surely? - If you did not know, not just if you changed your mind) but there comes a time (then) when the child within also must be deemed to deserve protection (from homicide) just as other human beings do. A baby (let’s please call ‘it’ that) can survive from around 20 weeks (if born). This will become earlier with the perfection of ‘artificial wombs’. After that point surely only the lives of the two people concerned are relevant (not ‘wishes’ or ‘convenience’). I get that women ought not be forced to continue with a pregnancy if it will actually kill them, but then maybe often the baby can be induced and raised rather than being chopped into pieces and killed (for preference). The ‘pro-abortionists’ have to move away from the issue of ‘women’s rights’ and consider ‘human rights’ (ie the rights of the child – and father too) and face the fact that what we are arguing about is whether any form of murder (Yes it is) should be legal: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/female-sterilization-options-roe-decision
06/05/2022: It was not an ambush: Rachel Bexendale & Greg Brown in the Australian today: “Ahead of a lunchtime speech to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in which his team had indicated it planned to speak of building upon Labor legacies such as the NDIS and after he made reference on Wednesday to Labor’s ‘six-point plan’ Mr Albanese was asked to outline the six points.
“The six points are what we will do, in terms of, was
outlined by Bill Shorten,” (sic) Mr Albanese
replied.” As I said before, ‘Not fit to shovel shit upon a
06/05/2022: The war on childhood – ain’t it the case: “The ancients sacrificed children to the fires of Moloch while progressives sacrifice them to their passion for wokeness”: http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2022/04/the-lefts-war-on-childhood.html
06/05/2022: Andrews’
deficits – did you take a serious look? He took Napthines’s
$17 billlion surplus to an $18 billion deficit in one
year and has since then nearly doubled it. He has doubled the spend on
public servants (again from $17 billion to $34 billion – easy to see where some
savings can be made there folks, and how to get rid of the deficit!) We now
have (from no debt) a whopping $167 billion debt, already $10 billion in
interest payments per year – god knows how much in future as interest rates
soar, as they must. We simply no longer have the money to build new power
stations (even though we have not built one since 1983, probably in your entire
lifetime) and soon they will all have to close because they are worn out – and
then where will the electricity come from – from ‘extracting sunbeams from
cucumbers’ as Gulliver observed? We need to build four simultaneously - imagine
where the money or the workforce for that could come from. There will be
blackouts for the rest of your lifetime. And you are maybe thinking of electing
an Albanese government which will be worse –worse even than Ju-Liar’s
and dominated by the same ‘Teals’ and Greens as hers was. This man cannot even
name the key points of his darling NDIS scheme – an area of the budget his last
awful Labor government under Ju-Liar thrust on us out
of nothing, but which now consumes more than Defence!
If you can’t actually explain the barest details of your largest spending area
of your budget you are “unfit to shovel shit upon a
06/05/2022: Mass starvation – that’s
what the Greens want (No animals, no fishing or fish farming, ‘organics’, an
end to scientific agriculture…sure that will work out really well): https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/green-nightmares.php
06/05/2022: ‘2,000 Mules’ is out.
Surely after seeing this no-one will be able to deny that the
05/05/2022: So you want to skydive from space. Alan Eustace jumped from 40 km up in 2014 – and lived: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a39877685/how-to-skydive-from-space/
05/05/2022: Can you still remember when our (scarce enough) water resources were used to boost agricultural production – and foreign exchange. (That's enough water to irrigate 4,000 acres - 20 square km by - the way): https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/labor_sells_huge_water_licence_to_alleged_ccp_linked_company_after_one_day_of_consideration
05/05/2022: Should you ‘be kind’? “The Nazis, in one of the great ironies of history, believed that what separated the Aryans from other races was their kindness to one another and to animals… While kindness is the slogan, the Trojan Horse of the ideology is the triple strategy of equivocating speech with violence, subjectivism and the weaponising of mental health… This is why statues are being pulled down around the world; why people with what were, until about five years ago, moderate views are called bigots; why supporters of free speech are called Nazis” A very thoughtful essay: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2022/05/some-harsh-words-about-the-cult-of-kindness/
05/05/2022: You can have the crippling debt of the NDIS (up $10 billion every year for the next four according to the budget, ie more than the projected total cost when it was introduced less than 10 years ago) or you can have this – or just maybe there is another way. (‘Everyone’ works). Strangely I remember that in the 1950s when one could have expected that there would have been a larger proportion of ‘invalids’ because of WW2 but it was lower than 3% instead of the greater than 10% it now is – and that’s not to add in the large cohort on ‘unemployment’, ‘supporting parents’ etc: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanising-the-poor-
04/05/2022: DIY Tents: In this post I thought I would pull together my ‘adventures’ with making my own tents/shelters over the years. My experience has evolved from utilising simple tarps/ponchos as shelters to creating a variety of tent ‘prototypes’ in Tyvek often followed by a lighter silnylon model (which I then take up the bush to try out).
I have learned a lot in the DIY process which I highly recommend to you. It will save you lots of money and (finally) result in a better shelter than you would otherwise own from a camping store. It is also very likely to be lighter and more functional, as well as being easier to put up and harder to fall down! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/03/diy-tents/
04/05/2022: How many times do we have to prove there is no climate emergency: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/03/a-sense-of-proportion/
04/05/2022:
04/05/2022: Stop worrying about whether your kid is gay – is s/he even human? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/this-is-not-an-onion-headline/
04/05/2022: ‘We’ are at war with
03/05/2022: A Cool Dry Back: The Vaucluse Cool Dry Frame. This looks like such a good idea and may well work. It is a open hexagonal frame intended to sit your pack of from your back an inch or so to allow air flow and (hopefully) prevent that nemesis of all backpackers, a wet back. You will have to pay for a dry back. It is US$97.95 plus shipping (May 2022).
Rather more than the $3 model I tried out here A DIY Dry Back Hiking Pack (which also worked by the way, but it was a bit awkward). I bought some approx 3 mm carbon fibre tubes intending to make a lighter, slightly more functional model but it has not happened yet. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/01/a-cool-dry-back/
03/05/2022: Pegasus – scarier than a flying horse: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/pegasus-spyware/14604/ & https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220502-spain-says-mobile-phones-of-pm-and-defence-minster-infected-by-pegasus-malware
03/05/2022: How prescient Margaret Thatcher was 40 years ago: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/40-years-ago-maggie-thatchers-brilliant-warning-on-lefty-teachers-indoctrinating-children-.html
03/05/2022: It is hard to imagine anyone worse than the Greens, but here they are – and they may well determine who is the Government after the election: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/greg-sheridan-brilliant-on-the-threat-from-simons-wealthy-white-women-collective.html
03/05/2022: Just so many mysteries in life: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/ive-had-a-penis-on-my-arm-for-six-years-now-i-finally-feel-like-a-real-man/news-story/083b66b0499a65a6f7c84dc2b79db875
02/05/2022: Wow! How promising is this: https://www.studyfinds.org/plant-virus-may-cure-cancer/
02/05/2022: Yes,
one should ‘blame the victim’. It is a person’s behaviour
which determines his/her life. Little
else (but luck). The
Invictus
William Ernest Henley - 1849-1903
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
02/05/2022: Those future food shortages just got a bit more real. You only have to look at what has happened in Sri Lanka to see that ‘organic’ would mean widespread starvation ie approx 30% less food world-wide: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/never-let-crisis-go-waste-samantha-power-celebrates-fertilizer-shortages-will-force-farmers-transition-natural-solutions-video/
Further, Get ready to give up lamb and beef: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/01/the-world-has-gone-bonkers/
02/05/2022: Not news really but this Chinese virologist confirms the CCP deliberately released the virus and did so in order to destroy Trump and the American economy: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/breaking-bombshell-exclusive-dr-li-meng-yan-says-china-released-covid-19-intentionally-not-accident/
01/05/2022:
01/05/2022: DVOs
are issued too easily without any attempt to see the other side – sometimes
they actually exacerbate the problem. You would think that the party they
are being taken out against would have some chance of defending themselves at
the outset and/or that the allegations being made have some truth in them – but
this is not so. I know about this as we had an unstable neighbour
last year issue one against us because they did not want to pay their share for
a dividing fence destroyed by a sudden flood event – even though it was covered
by insurance. The proveably false statements on it
(which were not investigated) could have even resulted in their being gaoled (if we proceeded to a court trial) but in the end we
negotiated a settlement with them when they realized that and that they would
suffer enormous financial harm if they persisted. The whole process anyway cost
many times more than a new fence would have and delayed the replacement fence
for many months. Also we were denied access to our firearms for
01/05/2022: After Wentworth & etc where are conservatives going to pick up seats to win government? (Perhaps where Labor is losing them in the outer suburbs). Or is it ‘The Deluge’. Anyway, God save us from Penny Wrong and Adam Bandit. NB: “Values aren’t buses … They’re not supposed to get you anywhere. They’re supposed to define who you are” : https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/28/a-farewell-to-sharma/ & https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/wenworth-diary/2022/04/vote-with-one-hand-hold-nose-with-the-other/
30/04/2022: Clever - Printed Circuit Bird Synthesizers: https://laughingsquid.com/printed-circuit-bird-synthesizers/
30/04/2022: President Zelensky Insulted By Biden’s Offer Of Only $33 Billion In Weapons When He Gave The Taliban $86 Billion: https://babylonbee.com/news/ukraine-insulted-by-bidens-offer-of-33-billion-in-weapons-when-he-gave-the-taliban-86-billion
30/04/2022: Love them or hate them, the Libs are good economic managers: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/australias-economic-indicators-amongst-worlds-major-economies.html
30/04/2022: When the government creates a ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ you don’t need to think ‘conspiracy’ is just a ‘theory’: https://ace.mu.nu/archives/398907.php
29/04/2022: What a Bogler: I just bought a new trowel which I am very happy with, a Bogler Ultralight Trowel. Mine weighs 13.45 grams on my scales. It is made from (hardened) aircraft-grade aluminium. It is intelligently designed so it does not wear a hole in your hand which is a decided improvement on most such things so that if you ever need to use it to dig for water in a dry river bend or behind the dunes or dig up tree roots for water & etc you may actually not die of thirst (or bleed to death!) before you succeed. Also good for digging for fish bait (worms, beetle larvae, etc.) Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/04/28/what-a-bogler/
29/04/2022: Back to
29/04/2022: Elon
Musk’s reflection on the direction politics has been going –
29/04/2022: Just look at how much
coal
29/04/2022: When I read in the papers Hanson would be preferencing against the Liberals I thought she had lost the plot…then I read her explanation. Time to wake up conservatives and be true to yourselves instead of trying to chase the socialists down their own rat holes : https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/one-nation-preferences-targeting-left-leaning-linos-like-trent-zimmerman-tim-wilson-etc.html
28/04/2022:
28/04/2022: Peter Dutton is right, ‘If you want peace, prepare for war’: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/26/igitur-qui-desiderat-pacem-praeparet-bellum/
28/04/2022: I don’t think I will be swapping any of my Landies (with 1000km range plus jerry cans) for 350 km: https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-land-rover
28/04/2022: In praise of Longfellow: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/04/longfellow-wrongfellow/
The Village Blacksmith
Henry
Under
a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy
stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands,
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
His hair is crisp, and black, and long;
His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he
can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.
Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughter's voice
Singing in the village choir,
And it makes his heart rejoice.
It sounds to him like her mother's voice
Singing in
He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies;
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes
A tear out of his eyes.
Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.
27/04/2022: I would probably prefer a .410 shotgun-cane myself but this might do in a pinch: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BYDC5ZL/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B07BYDC5ZL&linkCode=as2&tag=helentag-20&linkId=b539432b77c44daace90749f71b7208d
27/04/2022:
27/04/2022: Understanding the importance of coal: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/rafe-champion-guest-post-tasmania-burning-oil-in-prolonged-wind-drought/
27/04/2022: How long before all of us live this long: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/1094630648/the-worlds-oldest-person-japans-kane-tanaka-dies-at-age-119
26/04/2022: After twenty years and
many billions on ‘immortality research’ we are still dying: https://bigthink.com/health/immortality-race-to-live-forever/
26/04/2022: Let’s talk about the immense benefits (to life on earth) of increased CO2: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/23/increased-plant-productivity-the-first-key-benefit-of-atmospheric-co2-enrichment/
26/04/2022: I agree with Rowan Dean, “When asked what people wanted of their leaders at the next election, overwhelmingly the answer was ‘to be left alone’” : https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/23/the-libs-are-only-around-45-socialist-while-labor-is-90/
26/04/2022: “Not a single ‘environmental prediction’ of the last 52 years has come true”. Time we stopped paying any attention to these loonies and just got on with it: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/24/earth-days-failed-predictions-of-52-years-ago-the-amazing-environmental-improvements-that-have-occurred-since/
25/04/2022: The CCP certainly does
endorse Albanese (as the Lib ‘attack ads’
25/04/2022: “It turns out that the impact human emissions on the CO₂-concentration is relatively small. In his calculations, only 17 ppm (less than 15%) of the total increase is due to human CO₂. The vast majority of the increase is the result of the increased global temperature” : https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/22/why-is-the-co%e2%82%82-concentration-rising/
25/04/2022: Strange bedfellows:
Putin’s soldiers celebrate conquest of Mariupol shouting
‘Allahu Akbar’: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/putins-soldiers-celebrate-conquest-of-mariupol-shouting-allahu-akbar/
25/04/2022: Fighting above our weight
– remembering the
24/04/2022: Maybe Elon
will manage to bring down the Big Tech conspiracy to rule the world: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/twitter-hiding-dont-forget-dr-shivas-mindblowing-lawsuit-big-tech/
24/04/2022: The dragon is no longer sleeping: “The simple, chilling truth is that the CCP is doing everything in its power – mostly via economics, technology, diplomacy, and the media, not yet via military power – to destroy our way of life”: https://richardsonpost.com/robert-spalding/26730/chinas-rules-of-war/
24/04/2022: As if you didn’t know, “Fossil fuels are making Earth a better and better place by providing uniquely low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people”: https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/earth-day-truth-fossil-fuels-make?r=5c3gj&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
24/04/2022: Tetanus vaccines last at least ten years (and up to 60) but the fake covid ‘vaccine’ does not even last two months (and seems to be even doing a lot of harm, possibly more than the disease): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/tetanus-vaccines-work-so-well-we-may-not-need-the-ten-year-boosters-only-a-30-year-one/
23/04/2022: Important new information for men: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/04/21/bacteria-prostate-cancer/5541650549768/
23/04/2022: Jennifer has a very sound
point about sea level fall here. You only have to open your eyes just about
anywhere to see it: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/21/washed-away-a-short-film-about-sea-level-fall/
23/04/2022: Electricity prices have doubled. Without coal (or nuclear) we may not be able to afford electricity in the future. These green crazies pushing this insane agenda must be stopped. Build new baseload now: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/australian-electricity-price-doubles-ceo-explains-prices-up-due-to-lack-of-coal-power/
23/04/2022: Viv Forbes is totally right – we must win the war against the ‘green slime’ now or be lost forever: https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/26698/its-time-for-australia-to-vote-for-change/
Just a ‘for example’: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/cost_of_net_zero_500_000_jobs_and_a_massive_hit_to_the_economy
22/04/2022: Sounds very promising: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-04-tumors-partially-dont.html
22/04/2022: You don’t say? So, no climate crisis then: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/20/2021-state-of-the-climate-report-empirical-observations-show-no-sign-of-climate-crisis-snow-cover-stable-sea-ice-levels-recovering-no-change-in-storm-activity/
Even Greta agrees: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/20/a-puppet-slip-of-the-tongue-did-she-really-just-say-that-monday-mirthiness/
22/04/2022: I find this quite
sickening – a harbinger of the West moving to adopt
22/04/2022: In
20/04/2022: I have long noticed that the left seems to want a return to some ‘golden’ past (such as medieval times - or anyway pre-industrial). This Rouseauean ‘noble savage’ nonsense is really quite dangerous. The Agrarian Revolution, industrialization and capitalism has issued in an era of incomparable benefits to mankind: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/04/the_medieval_era_is_suddenly_calling_out_to_leftists.html
20/04/2022:
20/04/2022: Thank goodness someone (Katherine Deves) is willing to stand against transgender nonsense. (and well said Jacinta Price). “Does anyone actually believe that men change into women and women into men who can give birth, that the Earth is burning, the seas are rising, and we’ll all perish unless we cover our faces with strips of cotton?” (David Mamet in American Occupation): https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/deserve-to-have-a-voice-controversial-liberal-party-candidate-katherine-deves-finds-support/news-story/06db84bb658225363a96a368fa520939
19/04/2022: Nice bit of gear. I see some civilian uses for them too: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/04/15/pentagon-to-build-nuclear-microreactor-to-power-far-flung-bases/
19/04/2022: The truth is hard to take
- “
19/04/2022: Shanghai again. Something
very strange is happening here. The Cantonese have always been the soft
underbelly of the communist regime. Maybe that’s what’s going on - a
19/04/2022: George Washington: ‘Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master…Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth…The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments…The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves…’
18/04/2022: Ah Bess, what a great lady you are: “In contrast to the current crop of pygmies we have as world leaders, she is the last remaining island of permanence and stability in our age. She will leave a yawning chasm when she is gone”: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/miranda-devine-queen-elizabeth-ii-a-giant-among-world-leaders/news-story/dff90a02372dc4ccf43848cccafe4030
18/04/2022: Obviously not farm kids: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/15/children-farm-animal-same-as-pets/8071650031160/
18/04/2022: Just saying, but I suspect castration (or death) would work better as a deterrent (and be a fairer punishment): https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18287591/child-rapists-escape-punishment-apologise/
18/04/2022: When Age Poll discovers you are a dead duck: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/ninesmhage-poll-finds-voters-have-woken-up-to-therapeutic-albanese-the-hollow-man.html
17/04/2022: New tricks in electronics: https://scitechdaily.com/the-future-of-electronics-new-fermi-arcs-discovered/
17/04/2022:
17/04/2022: I want my country back too. For example, our feed and grain store in Morwell (MacRoberts - a third generation business which heretofore had not missed a single day) has been closed for weeks because of a completely spurious useless onerous vaccine mandate: https://spectator.com.au/2022/04/i-want-my-country-back/
17/04/2022: Too true: Peta Credlin's great expose on Anthony Albanese: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/peta-credlins-great-expose-on-anthony-albanese.html
16/04/2022: Watch out – carnivorous horses: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/carnivorous-horses-0016638
16/04/2022: Yes, time to take cobalt out of lithium batteries: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/13/cobalt-free-lithium-ion-auto-batteries/1731649255014/
16/04/2022: Modelling vs reality: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/15/roaring-and-screaming/
16/04/2022: So, not enough that the cops let the protesters in but they were led in by undercover Feds: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/14/yet-another-conspiracy-theory-comes-true-at-least-20-feds-embedded-at-capitol-on-jan-6-n1589815
15/04/2022: Taking a balloon ride to the edge of space. Same view – much more affordable: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/12/space-perspective-unveils-spaceship-neptune/4201649795426/
15/04/2022: “You can put lipstick on
a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.” Besides, Albo
could not lie straight in bed. Unless Labor can come up with
something/someone better than this before May 21 they will spend another three
years in opposition (but God save us from Penny Wong!): https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/each_way_albo_s_top_ten_political_each_way_bets
15/04/2022: Trust the expert: https://www.rebelnews.com/leading_australian_cardiologist_slams_push_for_mrna_vaccines
15/04/2022: The green energy transition which will not work. Already we have backup household generator/s here at Jeeralang Junction because we regularly lose power (about once a week for some time, and at least once a year for days!) This has been brought about because of the failure to replace Hazelwood with reliable base load generation (coal/nuclear – there is currently no other alternative). The situation will get worse as other coal generators close (Liddell, Yallourn etc). Then we will have brown-outs and blackouts everywhere very, very often. This situation will continue for years as it takes years to build base load generators even after the decision has been made – if it is ever made. The lunatics have been and still are running the asylum. This has to stop: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/guest-post-by-rafe-champion-energy-security-on-the-edge-of-a-cliff/
14/04/2022: Albanese – so smart: “Solar panels on the roof charging your vehicle overnight.” Thank goodness the Labor Party has a leader as useless as this guy – else they might have some chance of winning. Even that old Leftie Tom Uren described him as a ‘young Trot’ in his autobiography. Look, Albanese is an unreconstructed commie whatever ‘conservative’ disguises he may try to put on. Worse than that (even) is that he is clearly an idiot who struggles to talk: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/04/therapeutic-albaneses-solar-panels-charging-the-electric-car-overnight.html
14/04/2022: What a great idea – and to think, once I didn’t believe in censorship: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dont-say-gay-florida-raise-kids-homosexual_n_6245acc7e4b03516d42d0400
14/04/2022: I suspect these 1,000 dead athletes (including Shane Warne) are only the tip of the iceberg – what we don’t know (for sure - yet) is whether ‘the cure is worse than the complaint’. Hopefully it is not, but remember this, ‘Hope’ was the last of the evils to be released from Pandora’s box: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/the-year-of-collapsing-athletes-890-athletes-collapse-or-die-and-counting/
14/04/2022: Social ‘experiments’ have
real-world consequences. Vote for the Left and you will get economic chaos
(as the figures out from the
13/04/2022: Sustainable nuclear fusion edges closer and closer: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-shatter-record-for-the-amount-of-energy-produced-during-a-controlled-sustained-fusion-reaction/
13/04/2022: Putin’s energy policy and
strategy over the last 20 years makes him look a lot smarter than most of NATO:
https://www.commentary.org/articles/james-meigs/germany-russia-energy/
13/04/2022: The Bee is right – this trans evil must end: https://babylonbee.com/news/are-you-a-groomer-9-things-to-look-for
13/04/2022: 536 AD: Something like this can happen again any day and no amount of ‘global warming’ hype or hysteria will have any effect on it whatever – imagine across China alone 80% of the population died: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/climate-cataclysm-001360?fbclid=IwAR3L-CxaiHq4Pji3gD7TK5Sx1-HM0xGywdoIIy-xvSU784YBozVPd_t8NPE
12/04/2022: It is not getting warmer stupid. It has not been for thousands of years. This was always a commie lie. Let’s all move on with our lives, build some new power stations, buy an SUV and an aircon and have a nice holiday somewhere via jet travel: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/11/new-study-arctic-was-much-warmer-6000-years-ago-90-of-glaciers-ice-caps-smaller-than-present-or-absent/
12/04/2022: The Touch of Contagion.
One thing I really liked about ‘the pandemic’ was the way people stopped
touching you. I have always been stand-offish from when I was a child, so this
suited me just fine. I value my personal space and am very choosy about who is
welcome in it. My wife of 50 years for example. My (grown up) children on special
occasions. Pretty much no-one else. I really valued not having to shake hands.
I have always hated that ‘trial of strength’ thing which so many men
(particularly) want to turn it into, and my increasing finger (and thumb)
arthritis has made it mostly a painful and unpleasant custom. The faux hugging
which (what?) morphed out of English soccer/gay culture (I don’t know) I have
always found utterly repellent. I rarely hug (anyone) so why I should want to
hug (pretty much) total strangers or simply acquaintances (when I would pretty
much
12/04/2022: Steve Kates is quite right – if we want to throw our country away we should elect the (pro Chinese) communist Albanese who will flood the nation with illegal immigrants and so weaken our defence we will soon not have a country at all (after he has wrecked it some more with other crazy leftie/welfare & etc policies): https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/11/are-australians-stupid-enough-to-elect-our-own-version-of-joe-biden/
12/04/2022: There has
never been so much media, it appears to be so much more live and immediate than
in the past, but the Left’s ‘march through the institutions’ has destroyed its
credibility, making it almost worthless – a vehicle which could have been so
transformational in human betterment lies in the gutter. The average
(conservative) citizen’s trust of the media is unlikely to be very different
from what we see in the
11/04/2022: On Peter Walsh’s Death on this day in 2015: He was Finance Minister in the Hawke Government. He was possibly the last economically literate Labor leader. Comparing him to the commie rabble running the party now evokes the cry, ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.’(Dante)‘Walsh was not selective in his hatred of rent-seekers and protectionists: He despised trade union leaders as much as he despised farm and business leaders for their special interest pleading. And he was just as withering in his critiques of the environmental movement’s anti-growth agenda….He abhorred the rising influence of the environmental movement on the Labor Party and wrote that “since the 1980s Australian Labor Party policy has been incrementally hijacked by well-heeled, self-indulgent, morally vain and would-be authoritarian activists whom the media often describes as the intelligentsia”.’ From his obit in the Australian.
11/04/2022: E-ink displays for your phone are just around the corner promising huge improvements in battery life: https://newatlas.com/electronics/e-ink-kaleido-3-epaper/
11/04/2022: Maybe not so bad after all - Scientists Finally Have Clues About What We See When We Die: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a39454993/dying-brain-waves/
11/04/2022: The 1911 9mm is a classic gun for self-defence – why can’t we all own one here in Oz: https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/dear-9-mm-1911-i-you/
11/04/2022: One thing Putin did right: https://www.popsci.com/space/astronaut-mark-vande-hei-russian-soyuz-landing/
10/04/2022: Mysteries of aluminium foil: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/why-aluminum-foil-has-a-shiny-and-a-dull-side/ar-AAKizNQ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3a604cdb7bb2495fb21b9344e709bb69
10/04/2022: Private space travel (at US$55 million a ticket). I guess I won’t be going soon: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/08/spacex-axiom-private-astronaut-international-space-station/5351649362926/
10/04/2022: She’ll be right mate: In
2021 coral cover, snow cover, forest cover, rainfall and river inflows increased:
https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/in_2021_coral_cover_snow_cover_forest_cover_rainfall_and_river_inflows_increased
10/04/2022: We have needed to implement something like this in Oz for nearly fifty years. Let’s do it now: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2022/04/how-the-uk-combats-activism-in-the-classroom/
See Also: Why Australian Teachers Preach Green Rubbish: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2022/04/why-australian-teachers-can-preach-green-rubbish/
09/04/2022: This could be the biggest (and smallest) discovery of the C21st: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60993523
09/04/2022: Aussies are not convinced by climate alarmism, so let’s ditch it: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/no_surprise_72_of_aussies_say_cheap_reliable_power_is_more_important_than_net_zero
09/04/2022:
09/04/2022: Probably illegal even to
say so but long since time we recriminalised
non-hetero sexuality in public – as well as its advocacy and support. This
woke agenda has already done enormous damage to society (as I long predicted it
would). This evil cant be allowed to continue to
destroy our children and our society any
08/04/2022: Another threat to diesel supplies – this will have vast downstream effects if it plays out: https://richardsonpost.com/tyler-durden/26229/gas-stations-will-run-dry-catastrophic-scenario-for-diesel-emerging-according-to-worlds-biggest-energy-traders/
08/04/2022: Everything about the pandemic was BS but we just had to destroy our economy, our future prosperity, our freedom – you name it – and it should never end: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/unvaxxed-australians-cant-leave-the-country-because-of-a-who-treaty-were-protecting-the-world/
08/04/2022: Who knows what the truth
is about what is happening in the
08/04/2022: Folks have been in gaol for this for well over a year but now the first accused is acquitted because police invited the invaders into the Capitol building: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/07/first-january-6-defendant-acquitted-n1587832
07/04/2022: Just as global warming
goes away in
07/04/2022: Yes there were war crimes, but why were there: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/04/05/there-were-war-crimes-in-bucha-whether-you-choose-to-believe-it-or-not-n1587045
07/04/2022: What possible reason could there be any more for this draconian restriction. Surely our nation is not a prison colony any more: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/unvaccinated-australians-cant-leave-australia-unless-they-escape-is-that-swim-paddle-or-dingy/
07/04/2022: What’s happening in
06/04/2022: Ultralight Windscreen or Chimney Closure: This is so far a 'proof of concept but it will soon be a new model of my diy ultralight roll-up titanium stove/windscreen and may be incorporated into sections of chimney for my ultralight tent stove as it will be so much easier to roll up - and there is nothing to get lost. We will see.
I will make the tags longer than this. I stupidly cut it off. I also needed to allow another 1/2" of overlap. You can cut the slot with the super-scissors/snip they sell everywhere after you have drilled two 1/8" holes the correct distance apart. I needed to be a bit more careful about this.
Nonetheless I am very pleased with the idea. it is simple yet strong. It would work fine in .05mm foil which is all you would need for a windscreen alone and would make a pot screen less than 10 grams weight.
I think for my 4" high hobo stove three of these tag and slot joiners will make a very solid connection. I can add additional slots so that the stove can fit outside the pot or inside the pot.
A little experimentation has shown me that the .1mm foil is more than strong enough to support the weight of a 2 litre pot full of water. I use an 1100 ml pot. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/04/05/ultralight-windscreen-or-chimney-closure/
06/04/2022: Clearly the Libs are way ahead on Defence –
the big one that really matters (watch
06/04/2022: “With enough demographic change, it is possible for new countries to take the place of old ones, and new countries require new histories.” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/multiculturalism_and_history.html
06/04/2022: ‘Everyone’ is upset about the ‘end of democracy’ in Ukraine but let the real destruction of democracy in the 2020 US election just slip by – but there is vast evidence of a stolen election, millions of votes: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/719657/
06/04/2022: 40 years of satellite records show the average temperature almost never varies by more than half a degree, usually by no more than one tenth of a degree – clearly the earth has a thermostat,: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/03/uah-global-temperature-update-for-march-2022-0-15-deg-c/
05/04/2022: It’s the sun stupid: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/27/atmospheric-fingerprint/
05/04/2022: You would hope so anyway:
https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/03/a-victim-too-far-how-transgenders-will-bring-down-the-lefty-marxists-who-want-to-destroy-america-n1586542
Anyway better that than this: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/04/02/california-city-approves-program-to-give-trans-non-binary-residents-guaranteed-income-n1586462
05/04/2022: Interesting read - The war on gold: https://richardsonpost.com/harryrichardson/26405/putins-other-war/
05/04/2022: Maybe we just don’t understand Putin’s strategy – an alternative view: http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2022/03/an-unconventional-analysis-of-putins.html
04/04/2022: Some hope this morning
that common sense will prevail: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarians-vote-orbans-12-year-rule-tight-ballot-overshadowed-by-ukraine-war-2022-04-03/
04/04/2022: Governments (everywhere –
except perhaps
04/04/2022: “But despite his past as a left-wing warrior, the Albanese opposition is playing the small target game (and getting away with it) by “me-too-ing” everything, from nuclear submarines to tax cuts.” – just like Kevin Rudd did too, if you remember. But please remember how, once he was in power all that changed, then morphed into Gillard and the Greens, the whole silly season mess! Let’s vote conservative, then Liberal second with the Left very far down the ticket: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/federal-election/federal-election-2022-peta-credlins-sky-doco-explores-how-the-campaign-battle-will-unfold/news-story/842864638dcb6054520e3c3a25fdf92d
Note for example these two (same day)
‘news items’. Albanese wishing us ‘Happy Ramadan’ – thanks a lot for that: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/therapeutic-albanese-wishing-you-all-a-happy-ramadan.html
contrasted with Tony Abbott reflecting on the real achievement and importance
of (yet another) free trade agreement (none of which would ever have happened
under Labor) this time with
04/04/2022: Our greatest PM on the
way forward in the
03/04/2022: I could add a few dot
points to this agenda (to save
03/04/2022: Our best PM on war:
“We have to make the war that’s unthinkable to us for moral reasons,
unthinkable to them for prudential reasons. We who shrink from war because it’s
morally wrong have to make others shrink from war because they’d likely lose”
(delivered three days before the invasion of
03/04/2022: Bushfire management – how the ‘experts’ are so often wrong – and with what disastrous results. The people tasked with protecting our crown lands are effectively destroying them: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/03/academic-expertise-so-thats-what-its-called/
03/04/2022: Scary stuff – our
‘education system at work, “A survey
commissioned by the IPA published last week asked 1000 people “if
Forty six per cent said they would stay and fight, 28 per cent said they would leave the country and 26 per cent were unsure. Just 32 per cent of those aged 18-24 said they would stay and fight and 40 per cent said they would leave the country, 28 per cent said they were unsure.
Slightly more (35 per cent) of those aged 25-34 said they would stay and
fight while 38 per cent said they would leave the country, 27 per cent were
unsure. A clear majority in those age groups therefore indicated they would
either run or were undecided about defending
02/04/2022: Announcement: Liberal
Fact-Checkers Have Ruined April Fools' Day – and a lot else besides. Just about
every day the news headlines sound like April Fools Day: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/01/announcement-liberal-fact-checkers-have-ruined-april-fools-day-n1586136
02/04/2022: Rat Colony Beneath D.C. Disgusted To
02/04/2022: Le Pen may get over the
line this time – that would be an early swallow: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220329-french-far-right-leader-le-pen-closing-gap-on-macron-polls
02/04/2022: A little war in the
01/04/2022: Ultralight Survival Made Easy: I decided here to update the post The Complete Survival Guide (which you should still read) as it had become a little out-of-date in the three years since I wrote it and I had since written many other useful pieces of advice which I could incorporate in a new post, which this is.
I might have also called it, ‘I tell you we’ll astonish the new chums to see how we travel the land’ after the refrain from the old bush song The Springtime it Brings on the Shearing. (I also mentioned this song in the post Johnny Cakes – which you should try).
And it is a good point because these itinerant C19th bush workers with their swags (or blueys) were wonderful experts at ultralight journeying over the vast distances of the Australian outback which would put to shame any of our current generation. Suppose you wanted to make your own.
I remember reading ‘The Cattle King’ by Ion Idriess when I was a youngster about our great Aussie icon Sidney Kidman – and you should too. You can buy it from Amazon from $8.99. It is just quite wonderful. I believe Nicole is a remote descendant. I think Gina now owns much of the remaining Kidman ’empire’ – another wonderful ‘self-made Aussie hero, so it remains in Australian hands.
Even as an old man (like me) he would regularly leave Adelaide with just his saddle horse, pack horse and his cattle dog and within a few short weeks have crossed the entire continent through the trackless (often waterless) wilderness to the Gulf of Carpentaria – all by himself, and did so many, many times. Old hands still tell of how he would just appear in the darkness sitting by their campfire as they yarned over the billy. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/29/ultralight-survival-made-easy/
01/04/2022: Why you should not try to rob a gun store: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/security-camera-captures-gun-store-owner-opening-fire-on-two-thieves-who-came-in-shooting-video/
01/04/2022: Heinlein’s crazy years – the
01/04/2022: A Missing Link - I have often wondered at some similarities of ideas amongst the Pre-Socratics and both Buddhism and Confucianism. No we learn that there was indeed intellectual contact at the time (c250 BC): https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/greek-buddhism-0016584
01/04/2022: What is truth? I don’t know Scott, you described Zelensky who came to power in a coup in 2014 and has recently outlawed opposition parties as a ‘beacon of democracy’ but figures seem to show what the Russian people are 80% behind Vlad Putin: https://extra.cw/putins-popularity-up-since-start-of-ukraine-conflict-poll/
31/03/2022: Hunting Tales: You will find many, many posts in this blog which mention hunting (particularly sambar deer hunting which has been a passion of mine for much of my adult life) but there are many more which are relevant to the art and skill of hunting.
I have been a hunter since I could walk over 70 years ago now as were several generations of my family before me. Hunting is a great good. It has been valued as such by most of the people who have ever lived for over a million years now. You can ‘deconstruct ‘ values all you like – it would be mighty strange indeed if they were wrong!
Some other posts which you might explore which are relevant to hunting are my many posts about woodslore and survival, my posts about DIY gear, some of my canoeing posts…often other posts contain anecdotes about hunting or relevant advice.
These posts will not be your ‘conventional’ hunting yarns with a dead critter at the end. While that might be the ‘end’ of hunting. It is only a small part of this great sport. They will very often be something quit different from what you are used to, but I hope you enjoy them. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/28/hunting-tales/
31/03/2022: Energy from nothing – what we have long thought impossible has apparently been done NB: his may one day work for your phone but it is unlikely to ever be grid scale. However, it does reveal that nature still has many surprises in wait for us: https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/scientists-build-circuit-that-generates-clean-limitless-power-from-graphene
31/03/2022: “The IPCC statement that “The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible” appears to be true: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/28/the-100000-year-problem-and-earths-chaotic-non-linear-climate/
In a similar vein, the climate past is far from settled: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/30/climate-past-far-from-settled-7-major-temperature-reconstructions-find-no-agreement/
31/03/2022: “Of the 32 (kindergarten) students I teach 20 of them have come out as LGBTQIA and have come out to me” – I seriously question the ‘right’ of teachers to discuss such private (and adult) issues with their students. I think I would be more in favour of removing such teachers from the classroom altogether. Surely there is no sane society where such matters are core curriculum: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/398431.php
31/03/2022: My sentiments exactly - Mad, bad and dangerous to vote for, “Put simply, when ideologues demand power but cannot maintain it politically because they are cruel ideologues that destroy what they touch, expect more of their insanity to follow.”: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/29/mad-bad-and-dangerous-to-vote-for/
30/03/2022: DIY $4 & 20 Gram Roll-Up Titanium Stove: I have just completed making this titanium version of my roll-up hobo stove (as threatened here) and the carbon fibre cosy to go with it. I started with a 500 mm by 100 mm piece of titanium sourced from Aliexpress for less than US4. As stated in my earlier post You can buy the titanium foil to make the 20 gram one from Aliexpress for A$3.87 delivered. I have marked off the circle/hexagon for the fire door here. Note the ‘V’ at the bottom and top so it will roll up and fit in the billy. The circle is 2 1/2″ (62mm) in diameter. The door is 1/2″ from the bottom. You can build it with just a pair of craft scissors, a drill and a pop riveter. I use stainless steel rivets so they will not melt. Here it is complete. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/28/diy-4-20-gram-roll-up-titanium-stove/
30/03/2022: The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife – we will be hearing more about this in the future depending on how much info is suppressed: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/08/ariel-sabar-what-happened-to-the-gospel-of-jesus-wife/615160/ As in https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/03/the-scandals-of-the-dead-sea-scrolls/ So much we still don’t know about the origins of ‘the world’s greatest religion’ and about the historicity (or otherwise) of Jesus himself.
30/03/2022: You would have to be nuts
if you think there isn’t a ‘
30/03/2022: Is
Meanwhile, sanctions that work? https://instapundit.com/511785/
30/03/2022: When the Japanese arrived
in the Solomons (during WW2)
29/03/2022: Other Uses for a Garbage Bag: Many of you no doubt use a trash bag as a liner for your pack – which is a great use for them. As a spare ultralight raincoat is another. Still another is re-purposing one as a pad inflator (bag). I almost never carry the inflator bag (because of the weight which came with my sleeping bag, preferring to dry it out properly when I get home and taking the chance that mould etc will shorten its life – but I am incurable.
You may prefer to make yourself a less than one ounce bag inflator with a trash bag and a bottle cap. You can use an ordinary drink bottle cap or if you hunt around you will find an even lighter alternative. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/27/other-uses-for-a-garbage-bag/
29/03/2022: Mighty Oaks: A lot of
PC here (as compared with a single C19th French
shepherd who famously reforested tens of thousands of acres with oaks in
29/03/2022: If the mRNA ‘vaccines’
were
Surely this is proof that it is weakening their immune systems too: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/latest-cdc-data-shows-vaccinated-children-aged-5-11-now-likely-catch-covid-unvaccinated-peers/
No doubt Clive is right (ie he would have died). How many other less fortunate
folk have
29/03/2022: Has to be a good news
story, surely? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/new-zealand-massey-universitys-queer-fat-studies-lecturer-fatlicious-feminist-dies-suddenly-sleep-42/
29/03/2022: Absolutely right Alan Moran, You can't save the world with Net Zero. Such green fantasies will have exactly the opposite effect: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/03/you-cant-save-the-world-with-net-zero/
70% of
28/03/2022: Ultralight Ratchet Tie Down: Here’s a handy little gadget I picked up from Bunnings yesterday for A$14 per pair (Mar 2022)
Each 6′ (1.8 metre) tie down weighs 44 grams. Each metal hook seems to weigh about 10 grams whilst the plastic ratchet itself weighs only 14 grams so that if you wanted to dispense with the hooks for weight you could. You could also substitute a different length/weight of 3 mm cord if you wanted a device which was longer/shorter. I can envisage numerous uses for such a device including a secure means of attaching your pack to your pack raft or hauling your shower into the air from a branch.
They also come in 2.4 metre lengths. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/27/ultralight-ratchet-tie-down/
28/03/2022:
28/03/2022: Fortunately other things
have eclipsed the ‘climate strike’ but I have to agree with the author about
the quite dreadful manipulation and corruption of the children involved: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/27/lord-of-the-flies/
28/03/2022: An interesting anniversary I missed a couple of days back. Reminiscent of events in that part of the world today? https://www.ancientpages.com/2017/03/24/on-this-day-in-history-turco-mongol-emperor-timur-sacks-damascus-on-mar-24-1401/?fbclid=IwAR04ma_pgtFjmZXvFFh6VL0Xzm9tWbuAHjNO_I77Zhk6st8nFEarlstbwrA
28/03/2022: 3,000+ Years! You just
can’t challenge
27/03/2022: Responsible Sambar Deer Hunting: As I recover from my total knee replacement operation (five weeks now -and going well so far, thank you), every morning my attention is drawn to this sight outside my kitchen window. I know as a responsible farmer I should not allow this guy even to exist, but no-one is perfect - and it is so cute and will soon succumb to some awful disease anyway. (The blackberry also craves attention).
NB If you took a second or two to see the rabbit (I would have seen it instantly) it is because you are not ‘looking through’ but ‘looking at’. This is the most important hunting skill, and the first you must master.
He first cleans himself diligently then lies in the sun on his tummy like that for over an hour every morning on a little platform he has constructed under a shrub on the slope behind the house. This is a well-established habit. All creatures fall into a pattern of such habits - even human beings. A moment's refection of your daily routines will cause you to admit that you are no different in this than your wild brethren. The successful hunter can utilise careful observation and such recurring habits to ensure success in harvesting nature's annual bounty for the table.
And that is what responsible hunting is - it is not pest management. Its goal is not the eradication of some undesirable feral species but the careful nurture and management of a noble creature and desirable food source. Just as a farmer (such as me) manages his flocks to ensure that they increase and multiply each year (and are healthy and content) to the maximum extent of the available food source so that in autumn when that food supply begins to decline they will be sent off to market for the benefit of other people's tables rather than slowly starve as the lean times of winter hit. This is nature's cycle.
Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/27/responsible-sambar-deer-hunting/
27/03/2022: Golden Earrings (1947) –
what a ripper of a film. Ray Milland’s segue of
facial expressions on seeing the earrings in the first
minutes of the film is one of the greatest acting feats of the cinema: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Earrings
PS It is available on
27/03/2022: A New Birth Control Pill for Men. This could be interesting – but will women accept that you have taken it? https://scitechdaily.com/new-male-birth-control-pill-effectively-prevents-pregnancy-without-side-effects/
27/03/2022: Now seems clear the Bidens (father and son – 10% for ‘The Big Guy’ if you
remember) actually funded the biolabs in the
Also note How the ‘Trump Won’ Movement Will Be Vindicated: https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/25/how-the-trump-won-movement-will-be-vindicated/
27/03/2022: Of course I think they
are useless bird and bat chomping monsters which will never produce a net watt
of electricity but absurd isn’t it? We lived nearly half our lives within 5km of the (late - alas) beautiful
27/03/2022: You would think the
Government and the IPCC would have been on top of data like this (as with
similar unreconstructed thermometer records going back to the C17th some places – and other historical data, some much
older), but they are captive to a climate change scenario and myth so it is up
to citizens to correct the record. You will note that the record wet and dry
years are now pushed back to the 1850s. I have no doubt that the same thing
would happen with temperature records if earlier records were counted in. We
can see this already eg in the Cape Otway Vic
historical data and in the earliest
26/03/2022: Visual Hiking Oxymoron- please don't make these bizarre ankle
breaking wildfire causing stone
26/03/2022: Are you a woman – twelve signs to look for: https://babylonbee.com/news/are-you-a-woman-12-signs-to-look-for
If only it wasn’t so sinister: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/03/25/think-you-know-what-a-woman-is-usa-today-says-science-should-make-you-think-again-n1584248
26/03/2022: Aside from the ‘mean girls’ fiasco and Albo’s massage parlor antics the Labor Party has other chickens which have still to come home to roost: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/kathy-sherriff-announces-shes-launched-a-civil-action-against-bill-shorten-alleging-rape.html
26/03/2022: Now even the New York Times admits that the Bidens are crooks surely their demise is imminent. This dreadful fake ‘Presidency’ will not last beyond the mid-terms (in November). (I include the awful Kamala Harris in this). Democracy may even re-emerge in the ‘Land of the Free’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/america-is-finding-out-the-presidents-son-cheated-the-media-buried-it-the-fbi-hid-it/
26/03/2022: Once you go to the ‘real science’ you can trust it. Understanding it is more difficult! However, in this example, “IPCC’s goal (aside from frightening the public) is to determine the ECS, the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity, which is the surface temperature rise (∆Tsurf) due to a doubling of CO2 concentration. They are free to speculate, of course, but they are intellectually obligated to see whether their ECS makes sense. All they have to do is to apply the Stefan-Boltzmann law to their predicted temperature rise.
If they do so, they will find out that 16.4 W/m2 (for a 3oC) rise in radiative flux is violently in contradiction to the 3.71 W/m2 of “radiative forcing” that their models say causes that 3oC temperature rise. They are free to come up with an explanation, but they first have to apply the Stefan-Boltzmann law to their ECS. Maybe in a few more decades, IPCC will make this discovery.” One thing is certain: ‘The Science’ certainly seems to cause mass hysteria: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/24/basic-climate-physics-10/
25/03/2022: NIKE Releases New Women's Swimsuit With Extra Space For Male Genitalia: https://babylonbee.com/news/nike-releases-new-womens-swimsuit-with-extra-space-for-male-genitalia
25/03/2022: This Romanian MP is (unfortunately) so right. You can’t be a great light for democracy when you threw it all away over covid. Much of the West’s reaction to Putin is of this nature. You have a very short memory if you can’t recall Dictator Dan’s treatment of our citizens and ‘freedoms’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/trudeau-roasted-as-a-dictator-in-the-eu-we-watched-you-trample-women-with-horses/
25/03/2022: An outstanding family – putting your money where your mouth is: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ivanka-trump-meals-ukrainian-refugees
25/03/2022: It appears as if for one
generation at least, the covid mandate was worse than
the
I don’t know what to make of this message I received from a friend. It would be truly horrifying if true, but there is a lot of this stuff out there: https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=1487568149&attachment_id=708801196780080&message_id=mid.%24cAABa89gvkI-F1qKixF_pV1ZJQJJ9
24/03/2022: Now two advantages of Antabuse: you don’t get blind or blind drunk: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-antabuse-revive-vision-people-disorders.html
24/03/2022: A very interesting new drug – good news for the elderly: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-oral-drug-death-covid-mice.html
24/03/2022: Giving a big cheer to the Daily Wire: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/cancelling-cancel-culture-when-being-anti-woke-is-not-a-secret-but-a-selling-point/
24/03/2022: No way to confirm this story, but hubris and over-reach are the bare bones of tragedy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10641565/Russian-execution-squads-orders-kill-defectors-writes-IAN-BIRRELL.html
24/03/2022: Vlad ‘fueled’ the greens’ war on fracking (even though just about everywhere is sitting
on a virtually infinite supply of cheap gas). They are gullible fools after
all, eager to take anyone’s money so they can destroy ‘capitalism’: https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/putins-fake-fracking-news/
& https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/frack-to-the-future/
Who is in charge of our governments?
23/03/2022: How Randomized Control Trials really work: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/rct-study-shows-parachutes-make-no-difference-when-jumping-from-aircraft/
23/03/2022: 5,000 exo-planets
so far – how many more once James Web
becomes fully functional? Still only the tip of the iceberg but what
is becoming clear is that planetary systems (around solar masses – and
elsewhere even) is the norm. It would be hard to imagine that life has not
arisen on some of them and that
23/03/2022: Proof: All for nothing – no change in human CO2 enmissions will make the slightest difference to the climate: “Anthropogenic CO2 is virtually constant compared to the seasonal variations of the natural sources and sinks. The monthly anthropogenic flux change is much smaller than the uncertainty in the net global monthly flux changes. Therefore, there is no support for the claims about anthropogenic CO2 driving the annual changes. The seasonal natural source fluxes swamp the anthropogenic sources. Eliminating anthropogenic CO2 would have a negligible impact on annual increases, which is why the pandemic lockdowns had an imperceptible effect on the global atmospheric concentrations. I do not expect even draconian reductions in anthropogenic CO2 to have the kind of results claimed to justify eliminating fossil fuel use. The annual growth in CO2 is a result of increasing natural sources that is not compensated by commensurate increases in sinks.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/22/anthropogenic-co2-and-the-expected-results-from-eliminating-it/
23/03/2022: Good Lord – the
Ukrainians are castrating captured Russian soldiers, but they are ‘the good
guys’? That’s about as bad as it gets. When did you last hear of prisoners
of war treated thus? As I have said before I’m not about to throw away any of
my lives fighting for either side in this war, however if you really expect
‘right’ to be on your side you should perhaps make a little more effort to
distinguish yourself eg as being pro democracy
(instead of outlawing all opposition parties - some with 43 member in
Parliament and also fighting the Russians) as Zelensky
has just done. One should note that he came to power in 2014 in a coup ousting
the elected government and has failed to have ‘free and fair’ elections since
(particularly in the ‘disputed’ territories). Then there is the issue of his
secret NATO bases, the Biolabs, and work being
conducted on developing nuclear weapons – all these things clearly aimed at
making an attack on Russia in the future (under the aegis of Nato etc). At present I see Zelensky
as somewhat of a Macbeth figure willing to see his country destroyed (less he
be) or ‘wish the estate o' the world were now undone’ as Macbeth says. Vlad is certainly not a good guy’ either and ought not be
visiting the horror we see daily on the people of
22/03/2022: Adventures in
22/03/2022: A great essay by Keith Windschuttle on the causes of war: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/03/the-causes-of-war/
No, I am not generally in favour of war but it would be nice to think that one’s ‘own side’ were the ‘good guys’: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/21/what-was-the-2014-euromaidan-coup-in-ukraine-and-why-does-it-matter/
22/03/2022: The (‘Liberal’) loss in
SA surely gives a clear lesson that you do not defeat socialists by aping them
(as
22/03/2022: Can Civilisation
Be Saved? Substitute for the subject term ‘The West’, ‘
21/03/2022: “I have no reason to believe that he who would take away my liberty would not when he had me in his power take away everything else,” John Locke.
21/03/2022: What’s The Long Game Behind Fat Pride? I don’t know whether to join this movement or go on a crash diet: https://www.iwf.org/2022/03/17/whats-the-long-game-behind-fat-pride/
21/03/2022:
21/03/2022: Meanwhile this is very like the capitalists selling the communists the rope with which to hang them(selves): https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/03/19/germany-france-other-eu-members-sold-huge-stocks-of-arms-to-russia-before-invasion-despite-embargo/
Mind you that great ‘democrat’ Zelensky has now decided to institute a one party state in
the
21/03/2022: I will extinguish these folks properly if they come to let my tyres down – so over holier than thou bullies and save the world cranks who have no idea how the world actually works. As an example also the anti duck hunting brigade who are so out of touch with the natural world they refuse to understand that seasonal breeding each year creates a surplus of creatures which must be humanely harvested or else they starve the following winter when there is not enough food to sustain them. Who would have thought anti-theft valve locks would be a thing? Who steals air? Well, these people just by breathing. If only we could charge them for it there would soon be many fewer of them (as welfare may not necessarily provide free air – at least not if I was in charge): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/climate-vandals-are-coming-to-let-down-your-suv-tyres-if-only-they-had-evidence-to-persuade-you-instead/
20/03/2022: Of Course We’re Living in
a Simulation. The only people who absolutely disagree are, well, scientists.
They need to get over themselves and join the fun: https://www.wired.com/story/living-in-a-simulation/
20/03/2022: Putin really does have a hypersonic missile, ergo he can ‘afford’ to have a nuclear war. Very disturbing news. Maybe we should stay out of this: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/russia-deploys-hypersonic-kinzhal-superweapon/
Now just exactly how many wars are going on right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts
20/03/2022: Really strange the way
the Left has come out on the side of Zelensky
(and eg the awful Azov Battalion) until now clearly a
‘white supremacist’ and
20/03/2022: What does inflation mean? Tucker’s take. “The standard of living is plummeting”. It is deeply worrying, yet our masters do not seem deeply concerned about this, yet the average housewife and wage earner must surely be. You don’t think this could be(come) the major election issue come May? (Video starts about 20 seconds in) eg, “The internal combustion engine is a miracle upon which all civilization depends”. Oh Yes: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/watch-live-tucker-carlson-opening-statement-3/
In the same vein: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/the_us_must_face_an_existential_threat_but_its_not_climate_change.html
‘You know there’s a problem when the price of beer is up 5 percent’… https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/you-know-theres-a-problem-when-the-price-of-beer-is-up-5-percent/
19/03/2022: I usually hate music (and particularly as sound effect or score/background in films which ruin the dialogue for me - being substantially deaf) but this was really great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGzK2SwG5io&t=120s
19/03/2022: So True: In his science fiction novel Nemesis, Isaac Asimov describes a female character as possessing the "unloveable virtues": Serious, Practical, Responsible, Dutiful. My wife is also beautiful.
19/03/2022: Two sides to what’s going
on in the
19/03/2022: This is what your elite leftist masters have in store for you (and me). Hair shirts for the hoi poloi and dachas for the commissars – it was ever thus. We need to make a huge effort to avoid this. Our traditional Oz complacency (‘She’ll be right mate’) will not cut it. The coming elections must be a wholesale rejection of these left-wing notions including those who have infiltrated the Liberal and National Parties. Where that is the case those members need to be replaced by more conservative folks such as Lib Dems, One Nation, UAP, Fishers & Shooters & etc even if some of these people may seem to lack the competency to run the country. I had not noticed that the two main parties actually overflow with outstanding competency either! https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/iea-wants-energy-lockdowns-drive-slower-ban-cars-on-sunday-ride-share-and-blame-putin/ (PS: IEA = International Energy Agency)
19/03/2022: Maybe at the 11th
hour the world can pull back from the Green Armageddon: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/a-kalibr-missile-just-hit-net-zero-germany-wakes-old-coal-plants-uk-talks-of-backflip-on-gas-oil-fracking-too/
Add these into that equation. For
example: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/16/no-amount-of-incremental-wind-and-solar-power-can-ever-provide-energy-independence/ & https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-3-14-no-amount-of-incremental-wind-and-solar-power-can-ever-provide-energy-independence
& https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/16/green-fuel-folly-forest-thinning-for-wood-pellet-production-has-a-profound-surface-warming-impact/
18/03/2022: Just a reminder: how
burning fossil fuels is greening the planet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-nsU_DaIZE&feature=player_embedded#
18/03/2022: Mark
Twain, “I was educated once and it took me years to get over it” So true.
18/03/2022: You
can’t even imagine these shrieking nutters choosing
such a logo – have they never seen a set of male genitals? Well, probably not: https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/controversial-womens-network-logo-taken-down-after-twitter-backlash/news-story/fd5e2d01baa384d2d5b4e20fe86fe0e1
18/03/2022: “This
is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper,” TS Eliot ‘The
Hollow Men’: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/saudi-arabia-to-accept-yuan-for-chinese-oil-sales/
Maybe time to invest in gold. I have been studying up on what’s available from
the
18/03/2022: You
might not have heard much about the ‘global cooling’ era we are entering or its
impact on the food supply but this article is a reminder of the importance of
successful home gardening. I already warned about the dangers of the coming
‘stagflation’ event last week so get your finances in order – times are likely
to get tougher and governments world-wide have shot their bolts over the
imaginary enemy (covid) and have nothing in their
war-chests for the very real dangers ahead. In any case, as I have observed
many times before government is the problem, not the solution. We will
(thankfully) have to get by with less and less of it in the decades to come. My
suggestion has long been to wind it back by 10% per year until it disappears up
its own fundament. BTW If you haven’t noticed that government kills more people
than any other single thing you just haven’t been watching: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/food_shortages_soon_come__what_to_do.html
17/03/2022: SSDs: Have you bought
one of these yet? 40 Grams. Still working out how to get stuff in/out of it
to my Android phone – but you can https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/sandisk-1tb-e30-portable-ssd-black-sde30ss1tb
I teamed mine with one of these: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/23/ultralight-charging-cable/
Mind you 1 Tb
Micro sd cards are now $214: https://www.amazon.com.au/SanDisk-Ultra-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B08HCPTMJG/ref=asc_df_B08HCPTMJG?tag=bingshopdesk-22&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80676739598376&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584276306375179&psc=1
17/03/2022: Many Thanks. A friend of mine (Brett) has solved a mystery for me (from
28/02): “This video explains there’s a hidden device in its base: https://youtu.be/Y5dylh2aOiw”
17/03/2022: While
we are on the topic of reparations for past wrongs (I want some too) No,
really I don’t. Though it is true that my ancestors were forced off their
ancient lands (eg by the ‘Enclosure Acts) and then
many transported for life to Australia Felix in the early C19th
(and so on), I have enjoyed a wonderful life right here with the greatest woman
imaginable. No-one ‘owes’ me anything.: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/john-cleese-the-romans-the-normans-need-to-pay-reparations-to-the-british.html
17/03/2022: How
aboriginal (and mountain cattlemen) fire management really worked – and why it
is a disaster to abandon it: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/03/blackfellas-whitefellas-greenfellas-and-fire/
17/03/2022: Move
over Buck Rogers, Neil Armstrong, Elon Musk etc, etc.
You are just so patriarchal: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/feminisms-final-frontier-spaceships-are-too-phallic-so.html
16/03/2022: DIY Ultralight Shoulder Pouches: I sewed up a couple of
shoulder strap pouches (for Best $20 Backpack) from some 2 oz/yd2 ripstop nylon. I guess these
are about 3/4 of a litre each, maybe a litre. They can contain an interesting assortment of items
you might want to access quickly as you walk along. Spare ammunition, chewing
gum etc.
I attached them with an ingenious method I ‘stole’ from
Joe Valesko (Zpacks) though
I have no idea whether he still uses them. They came on my first old pack from
him – a long since discontinued model, worse luck. Simpler is frequently better
– and certainly cheaper. Anyway it is a simple ‘button and loop’ design with a
length of cord which works to stop them slipping down. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/15/diy-ultralight-shoulder-pouches/
16/03/2022: What
a hero she is: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/her-majesty-the-queens-message-on-commonwealth-day.html
16/03/2022: ‘Why
study English’, they say. Because it is utterly astonishing and you don’t
know what you are missing if you don’t: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-twa-corbies/
Warning: may actually take some effort. Sorry. No, not sorry. I can’t see that
AR or AI can ever replace the intelligence needed to study and understand a
16/03/2022: Banning
Rail Guns just seems to me like so much virtue signaling. These things are
unlikely to become anywhere near as effective as DIY pipe guns (that anyone can
make with a few basic tools for probably $10) anytime soon. Eg:
https://hackaday.com/2015/11/09/the-most-powerful-diy-railgun/
especially when you should understand that it is already a damned sight easier
and cheaper to buy an illegal firearm (eg a Glock) than it is to buy (and licence)
the legal alternative. Have a nose around docklands, western suburbs and other
sleazy pubs and you will see what I mean. If you have a lazy grand you can have
a pistol pretty much the same day. And this at a time when I would advocate for
making the compulsory ownership of
military semi-automatic weapons pretty much compulsory for lawful citizens as
part of any sane defence strategy.
16/03/2022: If
you have to choose between these two, there really is no choice. Anthony
Albanese has really
15/03/2022: Best
$20 Backpack: Modifying Amazon’s
G4 Free. Inflation has bitten a little since I wrote the previous post
(below) such that now this excellent backpack
costs $US
22.99 at Amazon instead of the US$19.99 I paid back in March 2018. That’s
inflation at 3.75% per year by the way. Still a lot cheaper than a plus $300
backpack which will do nothing more – or even do it half so well.
Since then I carried mine to (beyond) Dingboche on the Everest
Base Camp trail – and many other places besides – though our travels have
been somewhat curtailed recently like everyone else’s by covid,
or at least its restrictions.
You can see in this post EBC Gear
List me carrying mine just outside Pangboche over
5 km up in the sky. The backpack carried everything we needed for a ten day
walking trip (including rain gear, spare clothes, survival, satellite
communication (2) cooking, sleeping and shelter equipment (for -20C
temperatures). It weighed a little over 6 kg. Della’s was nearer 5kg. Almost no food and minimal water. You can buy it
on the way And was outstandingly comfortable.
I hardly noticed I was carrying it (at 70+ years old)
though my worn out knee was ‘killing me’ back then – which is why I had it
replaced last month. It had been causing me significant pain for nearly a
decade now. This used to be called ‘manning up’ and was considered a virtue.
See I
Kneed You
Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/14/best-20-backpack/
15/03/2022: Thank
goodness Zachary Rolfe has been acquitted of shooting a mad dog. He should
15/03/2022: An
interesting speculation – one thing is sure: most weather has a natural cause.
Haven’t seen a blue moon or a ‘year without a summer’ for a while as were
caused by previous mighty eruptions: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/did-volcanic-dust-from-hunga-tonga-cause-flooding-in-australia/
Cause and Effect are wonderful: The
eruption of the Indonesian island of Tambora in 1816
plunged the world into ‘darkness’ for around a year, causing massive crop
failures, the year without a summer, and widespread starvation in Europe for
example. It also brought us blood-red sunsets and ‘blue moons’ on account of
all the red dust in the sky. Also surprisingly it brought us the wonderful
novel ‘Frankenstein’ on account of Mary Wolstencraft
(Shelley) having to stay indoors all summer due to the colder than normal
weather - and needing something to do!
15/03/2022: Prospero :
“O brave new world
That has such people in't!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/transgender-serial-killer-shopped-99-cent-store-murder-victims-dismembered-leg-video/
15/03/2022: Three
days’ training and then off to war! I know you will say, ‘This will
Mind you they
are in dire straights and may well lose: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/clear-situation-ukraine-desperate-video-week-ago-getting-worse-zelensky-hanging/
14/03/2022: Zpacks Solo Plex Tent: This morning I received an ad for this tent
on Facebook (as you do). Zpack Plex
Solo Tent. Imitation is the sincerest form
of flattery, they say. I’m sure this is not the case here but this tent is so, so , like my original Deer
Hunter’s Tent which evolved from my Tyvek Solo Fire Shelter that the similarities are eerie
– and at the time (last century?) nothing like this existed.
Of course this is most likely because the laws of
physics/geometry are immutable so that (eventually) you find there really is
only one way to do any thing. I did however (originally) post the design,
measurements and instructions (on my old website)
then deleted them as I realized: 1. I might want to commercialise
them in future and 2. Someone else might do so first.However,
no doubt they can be found on the Wayback Machine.
I notice Six Moon Designs have a similarly designed
tent so it is probably just ‘parallel evolution’. They are welcome to my design
now anyway, as Della long since decided ‘we’ would not be launching any new
business ventures, but just enjoy life instead – and she’s the boss, as in most
homes I’m sure.
I am not so keen on Dyneema
as Joe is (though I understand he has made it his trademark material). It is
(slightly) lighter (at from .48 oz) than the best silnylon
materials (Ripsopbytheroll’s .77oz/yd2)
but I am not convinced that the very slight weight advantages are worth the
risk of using such very delicate materials. That being said, it is enormously
easier to repair with sticky tape!
It is tricky to cut and sew,but Joe has been doing it
so long he has no doubt worked out all the ‘wrinkles’ in doing it.
A very slight hole in the plastic film covering is very
hard to find and spot though. Non-woven dyneema
material does also tend to ‘shred’ away with use , something I am not very fond
of. I have had this happen with a number of packs which if they had been made
from a slightly heavier woven fabric would have lasted several times as long.
You are paying very big money for this special material (something like $25 a
yard – and it is narrower) as compared with $5-7 a yard for (‘ordinary’) silnylon.
Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/13/zpack-plex-solo-tent/
14/03/2022: Putin’s
crossing the Rubicon was an enormous financial mistake – but not just for
14/03/2022:
14/03/2022: Imagine
warning that having a nuclear war might cause a climate problem – are we
back to the ‘
14/03/2022: President
Trump is just great – I just can’t wait to see him back in the White House for
another six years come November: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/president-trump-biden-is-crawling-around-the-globe-begging-for-oil-from-saudi-arabia-iran-venezuala.html
13/03/2022: This is as true today as it was in 1854: "Most men are needlessly poor all of their
lives because they think they must have such a house as their neighbors have."
Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden’ - one of my favourite
books. You can still build a small modest house yourself for perhaps $20K. Also
so far as I know the ‘minimum’ house is still only a bit over 2 squares ie 25 square metres which should
not cost more than about $5K. I have been working on designs for wilderness
accommodation (for four) which are much smaller than this (around 6 square metres) and well under $500. I will be posting my designs
soon. Of course you have to find a block of land too – blocks still exist out
there for under $40K, some even under $30K. Some of these are quite large and
have power and water. The one at McMahons Creek looks nice: https://www.realestate.com.au/buy/property-land-between-0-50000-in-vic/list-1
NB There are still probably ways to get your hands on
some land for less than this – as Thoreau did after all. We (now) have a very
big house (it grew over the years to over 200 square metres
plus verandahs) but I doubt it cost us much more than $40K. I would think I
could still build it today for under $100K.
13/03/2022: When
they thaw Walt’s head out and bring him back to life – it can’t be long now –
there will be big changes at Disney World.
13/03/2022: It
is coming. Beware: You don’t know what ‘cancel culture’ means until they cancel
your credit card and ID card: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/coming-to-a-civilization-near-you-the-totalitarians-wet-dream-a-central-bank-digital-currency/
13/03/2022: This
could very easily get worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ4-vqO0oQ4&t=97s
12/03/2022: If you are a patriotic Australian who doesn’t want to part with too
much of your hard-earned to outfit yourself, try these folks. I am looking
very smart at present and for about 2/3rds of the
cost of local stores. This is all good gear too which employs Aussies and will
last. The King Gee Cool Work Trousers in a super tough ripstop
cotton come in a beautiful green (as well as black, blue and khaki) for example
for A$56. Cheaper and more durable than any pair of jeans: https://everythingaustralian.com.au/
12/03/2022: A (climactic) voice of sanity: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/09/wuwt-contest-winner-professional-2nd-place-is-there-really-a-climate-crisis/
12/03/2022: They work for us – that’ll be the day: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/33561
12/03/2022: Whoa! Let him walk home or see if Elon can
fetch him? The pronouns are more important anyways, surely? https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/03/11/russia-might-abandon-a-u-s-astronaut-on-iss-but-nasa-is-worried-about-pronouns-n1565829
12/03/2022: The same people who tried to hide the truth about Pfizer vaccines
(1223 died during the 3
Tucker’s
Take – yes, it is ominous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2cwGscanAg&t=284s
11/03/2022: Just wow – if only they had found it twenty years ago when maybe 1-2 of
the survivors was still alive: https://endurance22.org/endurance-is-found
11/03/2022: This is democracy? Any way the two main parties can lock you out of
voting for someone else they will use. A ‘plague on both your houses’: https://www.rebelnews.com/liberal_democrats_lose_high_court_bid_but_lib_dems_march_onward
11/03/2022: And there goes Duckduckgo too. The Ministry
of Truth wins again: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/ceo-says-duckduckgo-manipulating-search-results-to-down-rank-russian-disinformation.html
11/03/2022: People - for God’s sake! I’m sorry: it’s just so sexist: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/kamala-harris-the-future-of-our-world-is-being-built-by-women-and-girls.html
10/03/2022: That time of year again – ‘The Fight Between Carnival and Lent’, Pieter Bruegels: https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/pieter-bruegel_1559-1559_pieter-bruegel-the-elder-the-fight-between-carnival-and-lent.jpg
10/03/2022: The awful game of ‘marriage chicken’ - and the dismal future
feminists have created for themselves (and men): https://spectator.com.au/2022/03/the-game-of-marriage-chicken/
10/03/2022: It was not always thus – I am not suggesting we go back to this. One
(wonderful) wife is all I need: https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success
10/03/2022: The ‘truth’ about the
09/03/2022: Could
09/03/2022: Strapless Backpack: I have been thinking along these lines too
(just a thought at present) but my ‘solution’ was more a U-shape (like carrying
a bag of grain on your shoulders). The hobo’s swag is another example I
suppose. This one looks a bit complicated. However, the point is good – one
should try to carry the load perched on ones callipygous
bottom - as the Bushmen (or women) do. Packs need to be shaped more to fit in
to the curve of the spine (the lordosis – two new
words for you, perhaps) more, as Mountain Laurel Designs packs are shaped to. I
will be making myself a new pack sometime in the future which incorporates this
idea, and also the enormous improvement of the horse collar over the yoke
(which I suspect most backpacks have not realized yet): https://www.noshoulderstraps.com/
09/03/2022: I love this poem (much as I hate the war that stole the poet from us!)
I so agree with the sentiment. It is the small acts of conservation count
most. We have an archway I constructed 20+ years ago harbours
many fine birds who are maybe our friends. The wrens and antechinus
love the blackberries I labour to destroy. The pardalotes find a home in a raw bulldozer cut on the
hillside. The sea eagles nest in the open cut, finding the cliffs to their
liking. The peregrine sees the Station stacks as merely an eyrie.
The whistling kites hunt the ‘pest’ tilapia in the Pondage.
Marsh warblers sing from the cumbungi in the roadside
drains. The thornbills love spiders in our old sheds.
Many birds collect our sheep’s cast wool for their nests…life will find a way:
we do not need vast National Parks to destroy nature with vicious wildfires.
Such ‘conservation’ is folly:
Fifty
Faggots: Edward Thomas 1878-1917
There they stand, on their ends, the
fifty faggots
That once were underwood
of hazel and ash
In Jenny Pink's copse. Now, by the
hedge
Close packed, they make a thicket fancy
alone
Can creep through with the mouse and
wren. Next spring
A blackbird or robin will nest there,
Accustomed to them, thinking they will
remain
Whatever is for ever to a bird:
This Spring it is too late; the swift
has come.
'Twas a hot
day for carrying them up:
Better they will never warm me, though
they must
Light several Winters' fires. Before
they are done
The war will have ended, many other
things
Have ended, maybe, that I can no more
Foresee or more control than robin and
wren.
09/03/2022: Gold is shooting up – time to reach for it, and iodine (for
radiation sickness)? https://goldprice.org/
09/03/2022: We need to understand to what extent we are still being obfuscated by
the legacy of Herbert Marcuse: “The prepackaged opinions and talking points
of political camps, both left and right, are not thought. True thought, rather, is a journey whose destination is
unknown. Everything I write wills itself as a step on that journey, a journey
that considers nothing too small, and nothing too great, as an object of our
sightseeing, a journey where the posture of a statue or the detail in a façade
make us pause and look, just as much as do the demise of armies and the rise
and fall of civilizations. If you refuse to look at certain sights you come
across on that journey—no matter how ugly and hateful they may appear to your
imperfect being—then you will quickly get lost on the road and dizzy yourself
in a labyrinth of solipsism.” A very thought-provoking and well-written essay: https://quillette.com/2022/03/02/herbert-marcuse/
08/03/2022: This is an otter fisherman. Because they exist it lends credence to
the ‘legend’ of wild otters in NZ, a creature the Maori also had a name for
(though no-one has yet captured a photograph of one). They have (allegedly)
been seen even recently near Tautapere for example.
However that may turn out, I feel that there is no doubt Chinese sailors
explored the East Coast of
Here
is a possible example: https://www.facebook.com/bbcearth/videos/536017841085513
08/03/2022: The Modern Headhunter: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/box-human-heads-stolen-truck-denver/
This
has been happening in
08/03/2022: Maybe it will turn out to be a different ‘great reset’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/two-weeks-of-war-undoes-thirty-years-of-energy-propaganda-everyone-wants-fossil-fuels/
08/03/2022: I have been wrong before. Maybe soon we will be talking about a
Ukrainian invasion of
This
is how it’s done: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/how_technology_has_saved_ukraine.html
07/03/2022: Why are we destroying our men: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/2020-update-for-every-100-girls-part-i/
07/03/2022: Step Back in Time – a ‘Told You So’ moment. During
the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected
president, his “indecision” and “moral equivalence” may encourage Russia’s
Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine’: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/02/28/Flashback-Palin-Mocked-in-2008-for-Warning-Putin-May-Invade-Ukraine-if-Obama-Elected-President/
07/03/2022: Make the Nimbys pay for their own
boondoggles. Absolutely. I wonder how many young Greta followers would choose
to opt out of paying more tax? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/05/british-government-young-people-should-pay-for-climate-action/
07/03/2022: Stop
– before it is too late! “Reality -- like truth and goodness -- is not
fungible. Whether we wish it to be or not. We did not ask to be born. None
of us. No living being. No one ever arranged their own birth. That is the
truth, a fact. Impossible. Yet here we are. Therefore, it is simply impossible
that our rights come from other humans or living things. Or that reality comes
from Mark Zuckerberg.” (‘Fungible’ =
‘interchangeable’) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/the_metaverse_artificial_intelligence_and_the_assault_on_reality.html
06/03/2022:
Fortunately
Morrison has already stepped up our defence spending:
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/peta-credlin-australia-must-turbocharge-its-defence-capabilities/news-story/6c70cd7398b348c16fbe2b9dca97f9da
06/03/2022: The Covid Crimes Trials. You can only
hope there will be so that the (now) millions unnecessarily killed by covid because of wicked restrictions of cheap effective
drugs can receive some justice and
monsters like our Dictator Dan can be put to the wall: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/dr-andrew-hill-how-many-people-died-because/
06/03/2022: Whatever happened to this: Article
19 from the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human
Rights: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this
right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek,
receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of
frontiers."
However,
I can see his point: Tommy Robinson, “
06/03/2022: The Citroen Ami a $12,000 EV (unsuited for most roads) – how this
is better than a Suzuki A lot is beyond me. Ah, the future…almost glad I won’t
be around to see it: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/the-citroen-ami-mini-ev-the-covered-mobility-scooter/
05/03/2022: Time for a good news story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=278&v=PVPyLoYyUVk&feature=emb_title
05/03/2022: Watermelons: I have been saying for years that they are green on the
outside and red on the inside – ever since Patrick Moore a Greenpeace founder
revealed that the (‘disappearing’) communists took over the ‘environmental’
movement when ‘The Wall’ came down, so long ago now. All that time they
have been taking money from the (ex) communists (Putin et al) to destroy the
West in every way they could think of, just as ‘fellow travelers’ had been
doing amongst us ever since the Bolshevik Revolution (Nov 1917). The enemy
within. I know my University days in the 60s were full of them. How many I
knocked down with my fists back then, but not enough – and not permanently
enough. We let them win. Don’t just think of their ‘environmental’ plans here.
Their social (‘marriage equality’, gender identity etc) and economic (welfare,
social justice, social housing…) have been just as important - and perfidious.
They want a people who are secondary and subservient to ‘The State’. They
always have. They are terrified of the idea that the State is a social
construct which ‘The People’ implement from time to time for (clearly defined)
purposes and ought itself to be secondary and temporary in nature. Primacy is
an independent self-sufficient populace going about their own business with as
few (external ) rules and controls as possible ie
Freedom. They absolutely hate the very idea of freedom. Their money trail and
agenda has become clearer in the last little while: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/russian-linked-groups-donated-to-anti-frakking-green-groups-because-they-love-the-planet-right/
05/03/2022: I suspect also that Putin will succeed in
05/03/2022: However, sometimes a cheap (new) weapon can change the outcome of a
war. This may also happen with submarine warfare. This was (after all)
Howard’s ‘solution’ to making
04/03/2022: A Balloon Eclipse: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/bill-thompsons-celestial-numbers-come-up.html
04/03/2022: What can you do with such people? https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/crime/queensland-saw-amputation-victim-suffered-an-undiagnosed-medical-condition-family-believe/news-story/2304a58be2dd0a3975a269d380598f57
04/03/2022: Another truly remarkable essay by Lord Monckton which makes so many
puzzling evils so much clearer. It has made up my mind on a host of issues,
not least which side I should be supporting in the current Ukrainian
‘situation’. A must read. Really: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/03/the-strategic-threat-from-net-zero-emissions/
04/03/2022: Who are the real enemies (of the West?) Surely: the Left, Islam and
03/03/2022: Andrew
Hastie making it clear we should send more than pronouns or pronunciation.
I like this guy – can we have him as PM some day. Well, today? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/andrew-hastie-mp-on-sending-australian-ammunition-missiles-to-kill-russians.html
03/03/2022: Apparently
when the Russians actually invade it might be time to realise
(too late) you might need energy independence – even if you are a Green nut-job
- over to you Scotty: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/01/german-green-party-embraces-coal-lng-and-nuclear/
Another
way to put it: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-wests-green-delusions-empowered?utm_source=url&s=r
03/03/2022: Interesting
data. BTW: We are triple vaccinated (Astra Zenica)
for one reason or another – eg having needed a knee
replacement). Covid certainly seems to have slipped
from the front page (before we died of boredom instead) but disquiet about mRNA
vaccines continues to increase (in the background). Clearly evidence now of
long-term DNA effects which were specifically denied possible at the outset. Novavax has now been approved as a booster (if you still
want a vaccine): https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/01/russia-distraction-uk-gov-revealed-triple-vaccinated-account-9-in-10-covid-deaths/
03/03/2022: Maybe
long since time we thought about moving
03/03/2022: Selective
Crisis Enhancement (SCE) – we need a new acronym surely? We seem to move or
be moved from one ‘crisis’ to another as recently from Covid
to the Ukraine. I’m not sure either of them were (worthy) crises) really, but
someone (in charge?) is picking these out from the bundle and ordering that they
be accentuated as if they were the sole challenge facing humanity – and so that
we don’t get to thinking about other things. The folks fighting the war in
02/03/2022: You
might think the battle for
02/03/2022: At least plastic supermarket bags were
recyclable but we have rushed into flooding the world with worthless products
which are not: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/americas-national-renewable-energy-lab-warns-a-tidal-wave-of-wind-and-solar-waste-is-coming/
02/03/2022: Completely agree with Neil Oliver: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/33178
01/03/2022: This guy was great: Henry Louis Mencken
(1880-1956): "I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing
that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years.
I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the
former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of
man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the
policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that
any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a
tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the
measure, is bound to become a slave."
01/03/2022: One thing I notice (and have railed about
for years) is that ‘statists’ do seem to believe that the whole ball-game is
‘for the good of the state’ something which we and ours are all just
property of - like it was stamped on our bottoms at birth. One thing which
really stood out (to me) about 1776 was the Declaration that it was (instead)
all about ‘The People’ who could (rightfully) take up arms to remove an unjust
government and whose inalienable rights could be removed by such a government
but not guaranteed by one. The state needed to be kept within quite narrow
circumscribed limits. I still think this is an important watershed moment in
history. Government always and everywhere needs to be wound back with power and
wealth kept firmly in the hands of The People.
01/03/2022: What is really going on In the
Surely (for
example) this ‘news’ story could not be true: https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/25863/putin-destroys-7-u-s-bioweapons-labs-in-ukraine/
01/03/2022: Well Said Andrew Bolt: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-ukrainians-are-heroes-to-all-of-us/news-story/389f6056f6f443bbe104e1cbb98d11c5
01/03/2022: The Importance of Men:
28/02/2022: Thank goodness at least the Stock Market is
setting new records – I would hate to think the good burghers of
28/02/2022: I have to own one of these: https://www.atiki.shop/products/kinetic-art?st=&fbclid=IwAR1cVv-uuhn706xHsCORB9T1dy70xuLvXEJCSsdpiKM7rEBhTRt2VOlgmbk
PS: The more I look at and think about this object the
more I feel that It can't possibly exist. Surely it defies the laws of physics.
Once I could have written out the equations ot show
this. By the same token someone once said the same thing about whether bumble
bees could fly yet I have seen them doing so. Will I have to purchase one to
see whether it is a fake - or a new source of energy? You have to click on the
link and open it then scroll down to see the video.
A friend of mine (Brett) explains: “This video explains
there’s a hidden device in its base
28/02/2022: Knee Update 3: Good to know Putin is better than Hitler (at conquering the
27/02/2022: Many Ukrainians have (unsurprisingly) not
forgotten the Holdomor.
There exists an excellent 2019 film about it (eponymously) ‘Mr
Jones’. You should steal a copy: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6828390/
27/02/2022: Those
of ‘us’ who thought (again and again) we just could not have another war were
wrong again – and will continue to be so! If folks think they can have a
‘quick war’ (and win) they will give it a try most every time. Your prayers
will do nothing to prevent that. Bullies need to be convinced before they start
that they will have neither. This used to be called ‘Defence’.
Older people must be reminded of the ‘Phoney War’
period at the beginning of WW2 – let’s hope this is not a repetition. A
reminder, real people are dying. I am waiting for major leaders to tell Vlad very loudly to ‘Back Off’ eg
‘Tomorrow we will destroy the Kremlin’.
26/02/2022: What
could go wrong: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333751-700-meet-the-robots-that-can-reproduce-learn-and-evolve-all-by-themselves/
26/02/2022: “The
peoples of autocratic countries don’t get to choose their governments; that is
their tragedy. The peoples of liberal democracies get a choice, and that is
theirs. The fact that the people of the United States have chosen to be led by
a geriatric incompetent, at this moment in time, is more than a tragedy for
America; it is a tragedy for the entire world” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/02/1939-revisited/
26/02/2022: The
dilemma for the West: you can’t win a geopolitical conflict lasting years or
decades with an economy powered intermittently by wind turbines and solar
panels: https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/02/24/standing_up_to_putin_means_ditching_net-zero_818493.html
26/02/2022:
18/02/2022:
18/02/2022: Harry Cummins make a fine case for why I
believe in ‘discrimination’ or ‘discernment’ as I prefer to call it,
particularly in relation to immigration but also (for example) in relation to
the franchise. ‘No taxation without representation' formed the cornerstone of
American democracy you might remember. I would probably prefer to turn that on
its head, ie ‘No representation without taxation’ so
that you only get to choose who is the government and what the government
spends (your) money on if you have contributed (financially) to that
government. A very thought-provoking essay anyway: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/01/the-common-cause-of-china-and-islam/?fbclid=IwAR3RijMTcM2IeC6Sak3AUePXGXeNwHfsDjRfj4O9TZ1imw4slF4RRTAQrqE
18/02/2022: Knee Update #2: I have walked to the toilet and shower (using a
walker) and am now all clean and sitting in a chair. All going well so far -
and thank you all very much for the kind thoughts and well-wishing. Already
planning future hikes - Vic mountains (hopefully by May), Mt Bartle Frere
(alternate route) late June, EBC and surrounds late Oct and back to the Dusky (Fiordland, NZ) in Feb/March. An example of where we would
like to be: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/17/everest-days-1-2-lukla-to-namche-bazar/?fbclid=IwAR1R3V36ZjmJYb0cU-Zq0qKl8MfaiP8uVNkhhuGpmb4ZRtmogowldqcOj1o
17/02/2022: Knee update: Just to let you know that
5 hours after going down to surgery I am siting up in
bed and still have ten toes. Time will tell how well all this went. Many thanks
for all your good wishes. I will keep you posted,
17/02/2022: Ain’t it the truth:
Aussie beer tax slammed as ‘sexist’: https://www.rebelnews.com/aussie_beer_tax_cut_slammed_as_sexist
17/02/2022: If I
am a bit quiet for a few days it is because I am in hospital having a knee
replacement. Hopefully this gives me a whole new lease on life!
17/02/2022: On
the persistence of bad ideas: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/2/firing-the-canon
17/02/2022: Terrible
news P.J. O’Rourke is dead. Laughter died with him: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/pj-orourke-passes-away/
‘Eat the Rich’,
an example of his greatness: https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Rich-Treatise-Economics-ORourke/dp/0871137607?asin=0871137607&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
16/02/2022: Why SpaceX is going to dominate air freight: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/02/spacex-reusable-rocket-costs-versus-airplanes.html
16/02/2022: The
revolution really has begun: 81% of Canadians (already) oppose Trudeau’s
response to the trucker protest: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/32561
Trudeau goes
full Nazi: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/trudeau-declares-all-truckers-donors-and-honkers-are-terrorists-seize-their-bank-accounts/
16/02/2022:
Notice how the Greens and the Left’s vote is collapsing. Conservatives are
several points ahead: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/adam_bandt_s_greens_circle_the_drain_as_voter_support_collapses
16/02/2022:
Meanwhile
Seems that news
was highly exaggerated!
15/02/2022: This
pub survived the Black Death but could not survive covid
lunacy. Let that be a lesson to you all: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/oldest-pub-in-britain-closes-after-1229-years/
15/02/2022: The
truckers have brought about a massive change in public opinion in just a
15/02/2022: What
do greens really want? We must not bow to this sort of climate madness: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/amid-energy-crisis-uk-government-uses-regulatory-death-curse-on-massive-local-gas-industry/
15/02/2022: Last
Week the “Experts” Admitted Lockdowns Did Not Reduce Mortality Rates — Now They Admit Masking Was Mostly Worthless: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/wow-last-week-experts-admitted-lockdowns-not-reduce-mortality-rates-now-admit-masking-mostly-worthless/
May be useful
advice: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/heres-how-to-detox-from-the-covid-spike-protein-from-the-jab-or-the-virus/
14/02/2022: Who
needs Netflix, etc? The Internet Archive has thousands of fine movies and TV
shows for streaming (without ads) for free: https://archive.org/details/feature_films
14/02/2022:
Useful Instructable: How to open a locked door
without a key: https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/a25318691/how-open-locked-door/
14/02/2022: Well
said Joel – everyone needs to step back from trying to steal votes from the
extreme Left. Instead these evil forces need to be rejected and exorcised: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/labor-mp-says-party-is-better-off-in-opposition-than-doing-deal-with-greens-in-event-of-hung-parliament/news-story/7a63587e1ddaed778ea38c20917bb051
You should try
to understand the cost of green lunacy: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/here_s_the_cost_of_a_labor_greens_government
14/02/2022: When
you are punished for doing a public service: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/i-have-no-problem-with-this-murder/
13/02/2022:
Nature is awesome: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/massive-swarm-of-birds-plummet-to-the-earth-dead-very-bizarre-video/
13/02/2022: Amid
the witch-hunting of our greatest warrior and hero Ben Roberts-Smith VC please
try to understand why we have a military, (Clue: It is not to push some bizarre
woke agenda): https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-retired-marine-3-star-general-explains-critical-military-theory/ar-AATHzEt?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
13/02/2022: What
if a revolution had already started and no-one even noticed (because the media
are part of the system). Remember how the collapse of the
13/02/2022: A
huge crowd in
12/02/2022:
12/02/2022: You betcha – no such thing as a free lunch: https://www.city-journal.org/free-lunch-economics
12/02/2022: We
have often said, ‘But it ain’t the Black Death’ but
now it turns out the Black Death wasn’t either: https://scitechdaily.com/black-death-mortality-not-as-widespread-as-long-thought-bubonic-plague-had-no-impact-on-parts-of-europe/
11/02/2022: The
remarkable Anthony Hopkins: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/02/10/wolfmanoz-at-the-movies-8/
11/02/2022: The
debate about euthanasia quickly slips from (not) forcing people to live with
intolerable conditions to forcing them to end their lives because (such) lives
are ‘worthless’. Many would have seen Helen Keller’s whole life for example
as ‘not worth living’ (if it were them, they think) but she and millions of
others do not agree: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/01/the-political-shifts-that-embrace-euthanasia/
11/02/2022:
Innumeracy and ‘aboriginal genocide’: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/01/aborigines-and-the-question-of-genocide/
10/02/2022: Wild
surfing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZoPR4pCwm0&t=66s
10/02/2022:
Election fraud. Just one state. As if it was not enough that the Arizona audit
found 700,000 dubious votes there are over 700,000 votes lacking any chain of
custody: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/huge-maricopa-county-investigation-finds-additional-740000-ballots-no-documented-chain-custody/
Election officials have been caught deleting records: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/exclusive-election-fraud-video-maricopa-county-election-workers-caught-red-handed-deleting-archived-files-server-delivery-auditors/
Meanwhile Rep Finchen introduces a bill to decertify
the election results: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/breaking-big-arizona-state-rep-mark-finchem-introduces-resolution-set-aside-decertify-three-2020-county-elections/
10/02/2022:
World’s most massive experiment - mRNA Vaccines just became even more worrying:
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/spike-protein-still-being-produced-60-days-later-after-mrna-vax/
PS: We have just had our third shot of Astra Zenica.
PS: Astra-Zenica
has (at last) been approved a a booster this morning,
so there is a choice. Soon Novavax will join it.
09/02/2022: Tali Karng - a Gippsland Gem: A friend of mine (Leanne) walked there
last weekend reminding me of our trip there twelve years' ago, not long after
the 2007 fire. The bush has changed a fair bit since then. She kindly shared
her photos with me, so I have been able to construct this photo essay about the
trip for your edification.
Leanne started her trip (as many do) at the McFarlane
Saddle on the
Many people just walk up from the
It is only a thirty or so years ago that we used to
drive in along what were then 4WD (logging) tracks deer hunting. I have
even been in there in my old (1981) Subaru Leone circa 1984 with my foxhounds.
It is (alas) just a pile of rust in the paddock today (and the beloved hounds
but a memory) but on that day I towed a Toyota Land Cruiser through a couple of
difficult sections with it. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/02/08/tali-karng-a-gippsland-gem/
09/02/2022:
Women (and men) just became redundant: https://interestingengineering.com/an-ai-robot-nanny-will-care-for-human-embryos-in-artificial-wombs
09/02/2022: The
‘nuclear family’ was a mistake? An interesting read: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuclear-family-was-a-mistake/605536/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2smYKHi_Ud2csYitXDLm954scVyE3hsHEdgR9AG2ZfW2egbKi2ZCdDJjc
09/02/2022: Some
‘religion’ where it is ‘honourable’ to murder women: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10488629/Iranian-husband-carries-severed-head-wife-decapitating-honour-killing.html
08/02/2022: Men
have been boss in the Orkneys for a long while: https://scitechdaily.com/ancient-dna-rewrites-the-history-of-prehistoric-orkney-britains-ancient-capital/
08/02/2022:
Seems like the Shoshone have busy been in
08/02/2022:
Another great green idea: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/02/germany_to_raze_a_1000yearold_forest_in_the_name_of_going_green.html
08/02/2022: From
Anon:
Dear Complier,
We’ve met, but you probably don’t recognise me. You
may remember referring to me as a “conspiracy theorist”, “racist”, “sexist”,
“bigot”, or “anti-vaxxer”, but in fact I am none of
the above, and much more to you than you realise. I
am your friend, family member, colleague, lover, acquaintance and neighbour. I am everywhere, but I don’t self-righteously
disclose where exactly.
You’re wearing a mask so I can’t see the scorn set on your lips, or even your
smile (if it’s there). Your eyes are visible, but in them I see only
compliance, fear, shame and defeat. I don’t judge you, as I know you are a
victim. You have been efficiently conditioned, the result of which has left you
stripped bare of self-confidence, dignity, power and compassion.
Your only strength is to attack those unwilling to join you in obedience. It’s
okay – I don’t feel mad – I feel sad for you. I will allow you to direct your
fear at me and I will accept it, because the battle I am fighting is for you as
well as me. It’s for your children and grandchildren, as well as mine.
You and I both had a choice to make, and I decided to fight for freedom. You
submitted instantly, and attempted to shame, intimidate and coerce me into the
same, becoming outraged at my independence and my belief in “my body, my
choice”. You disagree with my striving for a fair and just society, free from
fraud and deception. You call me a “fascist” for arguing against government
overreach. Do you see this irony?
While you continue to angrily comply, to follow those who have continuously
lied to you, I will continue to push back. I will continue to value my autonomy
and I will use my strength to free us both from the path you are blindly
walking down.
One day you will see how much your compliance almost cost us, and hopefully you
will see that I was never your enemy. I look forward to this day, and I will
celebrate it with you. Until then, I will be here propping you up and preventing
you from falling, anonymously of course.
Sincerely, Anon.
07/02/2022: Let’s break the cycle:
07/02/2022: Is this the first chink in the narrative? Will there come a rush
to say, ‘It wasn’t us’. For example here in Vic literally thousands of people
have died because Dictator Dan banned simple safe effective treatments for covid which would have saved many of them (instead of
promoting them). https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/failed-danish-newspaper-apologizes-not-questioning-governments-covid-19-narrative-video/
06/02/2022: “I did but see her passing by…” a happy Jubilee to our wonderful Queen
today: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-monarchy/2022/02/long-live-our-platinum-queen/
06/02/2022: Gobelki Tepe
continues to rewrite history: https://allthatsinteresting.com/gobekli-tepe
06/02/2022: The purpose of education: https://www.city-journal.org/html/self-reliance-vs-self-esteem-12493.html
06/02/2022: Ivermectin now shown to cure cancer: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ivermectin-has-powerful-anti-cancer-effects-study/
05/02/2022: Freedom Protesters in
05/02/2022: I don’t think it is fine to shoot people for jumping the queue, or
spitting on the footpath...Shooting is so noisy (and frightens small
children and horses. Garrotting is fine). The essence
of all crime is folks who forget the ‘golden rule’ (had they ever heard of it? Viz: ‘Do unto others…’). ie Folks
who think they are more important than other folks, so that it is only the
latter who should stand in line! People need to learn to ‘keep their place’; if
they do not, then ‘off with their heads’!
05/02/2022: The Roman, Scipio Aemilianus.
His name is hardly a by-word today – yet it should be. During the course of
the Third Punic War he was famous for repeating, ‘Carthage Must Be Destroyed!’
which they did most efficaciously when they won, executing all the menfolk, enslaving all the women and children, razing the
city to the ground, ploughing salt into the fields
& etc. Not much sign of
05/02/2022: Natural immunity is still better than anything we have engineered: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/natural-immunity-still-strong-and-durable-20-months-later-no-boosters-needed/
Meanwhile
they are conducting random covid tests because 90% of
folk have no idea they have it: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/02/not-enough-sick-people-to-keep-the-covid-machine-running-now-its-random-covid-tests-for-more-victims.html
05/02/2022: Maybe you think you should hate plastics but you are going to love
this stuff: https://scitechdaily.com/mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic/
04/02/2022: And I thought lizards laid eggs! https://www.facebook.com/abccanberra/videos/691947541798182
04/02/2022:
04/02/2022: The people are winning against covid tyranny
in multiple countries. Hold the line peeps: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/major-win-uk-govt-backs-down-on-mandatory-jabs-for-healthworker-jabs/
04/02/2022: A mysterious cancer cure: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-cancer-treatment-makes-leukemia-vanish-but-creates-more-mysteries/ar-AATpelW?ocid=msedgntp
04/02/2022: 2000 Mules: It’s normal in elections for one person to make 53 trips
to 20 drop boxes…and this is only the tip of the iceberg in the most
fraudulent election in ‘democratic’ history which must be undone lest the West
is lost: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/2000-mules-its-normal-in-elections-for-one-person-to-make-53-trips-to-20-drop-boxes/
03/02/2022: “Koalas don’t need saving. Indeed, they are in much higher numbers
across a much wider area today than when Europeans arrived in
03/02/2022: Official (office of national statistics) figures that over the last
two years 17371 people in the UK actually died ‘from covid’
as compared to ‘with covid’ ie
about 10% of the total normally attributed to it. This is no more than would
‘normally’ die ‘from’ seasonal flu over the same time period. It also begs the
question of how many might have been ‘saved’ if readily available proven
prevention and treatment had been applied (instead of in some case banned). The
average age of these folks who died was mid 80s, ie above
the ‘normal’ average age of death. This leads one to question how many years of
life have been saved by ‘health’ and economic measures compared with the cost
in years of life expended (lockdowns etc). Clearly you could hardly argue that
more than a year of life was ‘lost’ by every person who died - or 17371 life
years, but just as clearly locking up 70 million people for perhaps a year
‘cost’ 70 million life years a ratio of over 4,000 years of life expended for
every year of life ‘saved’. Similarly if you divide the economic costs by the
‘life years’ saved it just doesn’t add up. https://www.harrogate-news.co.uk/2022/01/23/ons-data-shows-17371-covid-19-deaths-with-no-underlying-conditions-from-a-total-of-152872-recorded-as-died-within-28-days-of-testing-positive/
NB: I strongly suspect if these ratios hold up for Australia we have in fact
lost only approx 300 (not 3,000) 85+ year olds to covid
in two years so probably costing us at most 300 life-years. We have lost more
lives in total and orders of magnitude more life years to suicide due to the
lockdowns. Here in
03/02/2022: The Rape of
03/02/2022: This would be so nice – bring it on: https://newatlas.com/medical/osteoarthritis-pain-treatment-molecular-pathway/
02/02/2022: A dog who can teach us a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhvwYZuBttQ
02/02/2022: “Since (just) 2019,there have been over 350
peer-reviewed scientific papers published showing no warming in the modern era
and/or much warmer temperatures than today when CO2 levels ranged from 180 to
280 ppm” Remember Einstein’s observation, “No amount
of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me
wrong”: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/31/105-more-non-global-warming-non-hockey-stick-temperature-records-added-to-the-database-in-2021/
02/02/2022: Just imagine if people did not want to buy woke propaganda: https://pjmedia.com/culture/matt-margolis/2022/01/28/dc-comics-bisexual-climate-change-fighting-superman-is-kryptonite-to-sales-n1553849
02/02/2022: It is long since time we started to build nuclear power stations,
stopped scrapping coal but ditched useless and costly ‘green’ energy. The
woke left are destroying us. Fight back like the Canadian truckies
are showing us how to do: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/suddenly-the-world-shifts-back-to-nuclear/ PS: I notice the socialists are condemning
the workers of the world for uniting!
01/02/2022: Maybe you thought it was whalers who nearly drove the blue whale to
extinction: https://gizmodo.com/horrific-observations-confirm-that-orcas-feed-on-blue-w-1848442007
01/02/2022: If these side-effects of MRNA vaccines are general the cost will be
appalling – and our governments mandated this stuff. NB “The increase in
medical reports didn’t happen during the first year of Covid,
only after the vaccination program was started. In other words, Covid itself didn’t cause this”: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/whistleblowers-reveal-dod-medical-data-showing-military-cancer-diagnoses-tripled-since-rollout-experimental-vaccines-along-10x-increase-neurological-disorders-near-5x/
& https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/game-changer-us-military-data-shows-shockingly-high-vaccination-injuries/
01/02/2022: Elon Musk, “ if the government had the
mandate of the people there would (not) be a significant counter-protest.
There is not, therefore they do not…“It would appear that the so-called ‘fringe
minority’ is actually the government…Protesting in a Canadian winter shows real
commitment!”
01/02/2022: Vitamin D supplements really do reduce the risk of auto-immune
diseases: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2306132-vitamin-d-supplements-really-do-reduce-risk-of-autoimmune-disease/
31/01/2022: A Billion Years of Time is Just Missing – did they look under the sofa
cushions: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdzzb/a-billion-years-of-time-are-mysteriously-missing-scientists-think-they-know-why
31/01/2022: Astra Zenica Booster (if you don’t want a Pfizer/Moderna and can’t wait for Novavax):
You can still get one if you get a certificate from your doctor. We have.
It is (if anything) even more effective than the alternatives: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/astrazeneca-shot-third-dose-works-against-omicron-study-2021-12-23/?fbclid=IwAR17-sPdF_iZLr-eyp4deAoU5OmSb2w-owBiSph3FQ-RT5vCb16RvPu8zuQ
31/01/2022: We Are a young country: I have lived nearly
a third of our country’s history (73/234 years). My grandfather George (b
1872) had lived half of its history to date when he died in 1955. He used to
claim he had met someone who was on the First Fleet which may have been true
(but he was a notorious story-teller). His grandfather Thomas Westbury who was
transported here in 1828 would have. Also certainly Della’s mother, Dorothy who
passed away in 2013 could rightly say that her grandmother had too. Her
grandmother, Fannie was born in Tiverton Devon in 1844. She lived next door to
her grandmother Mary (Madge) Richards (d1855) who was not only on the First
Fleet (as a soldier’s wife) but gave birth to a son, William on the voyage out!
You can understand perhaps why I am annoyed that (it seems to me) we are just
throwing our country away – if we have not done so already.
30/01/2022: Ice Travel: Sometimes in winter on trails like the EBC
etc there are dangerous patches of ice which need to be traversed. Obviously if
you were expecting this as a constant situation you would be using more serious
crampons. Vargo have just updated their ultralight
pocket cleats (62 grams each) which can be quickly attached to your shoes
for extra traction in such situations. They are now simpler, more elegant and
look more reliable than their
earlier product and with a weight saving of about 5 grams.
30/01/2022: Faraday Bag – What a world that we should need such things.
30/01/2022: Ask yourself this (if you
supposed there was some runaway ‘greenhouse effect’) how does the world
maintain such a perfect constant average
30/01/2022:
Why waste a billion on a Reef which has never been bigger or better – so over
woke ‘conservative’ governments: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/the_media_admits_peter_ridd_is_right_great_barrier_reef_coral_cover_is_at_a_record_high
30/01/2022:
Maybe the truckies will succeed in ending the
mandates: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/canadian-truckers-for-freedom-growing-fast-11-convoys-5m-one-convoy-said-to-be-150km-long/
Our truckies
join in: https://www.rebelnews.com/australian_truck_drivers_join_the_convoy_for_freedom
28/01/2022:
What is Vanguard (or whoever) up to in fomenting WW3 in Ukraine Russia would want to re-conquer the Ukraine US
is importing so much oil from Russia
28/01/2022:
Islamic extremism in decline? We can only hope so: https://quillette.com/2022/01/21/in-the-muslim-world-islamism-is-going-out-of-vogue/
28/01/2022:
This level of tyranny is just dreadful: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/quebec-canada-bans-unvaxxed-buying-groceries-major-retailers-unless-accompanied-health-warden-will-ensure-buy-food-medicine/
27/01/2022:
Why aren’t we using an Astra Zenica booster (if it is
more effective): https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/astrazeneca-shot-third-dose-works-against-omicron-study-2021-12-23/?fbclid=IwAR17-sPdF_iZLr-eyp4deAoU5OmSb2w-owBiSph3FQ-RT5vCb16RvPu8zuQ
27/01/2022: Our BOM is totally out of control: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/26/australias-broken-temperature-record-part-1/ & https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/27/statistical-analysis-can-provide-evidence-that-the-official-australian-acornsat-2-1-temperature-analysis-has-added-non-climatic-warming-to-the-record-1910-to-2019/
27/01/2022:
27/01/2022: About time we had a second Crimean War. We need more Australian place
names memorialising such faraway places: Balaclava, Inkerman,
26/01/2022: It begins at last– the undoing of a crooked election.
26/01/2022: Terraforming the
26/01/2022: This just can’t be happening: The Criminalisation
of Christianity in
26/01/2022: The ‘Aboriginal’
26/01/2022:
How China
25/01/2022:
Just reading a recent speech by Putin . Seems like we would be picking the
wrong side if we opposed his ideas. Do read: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/01/putin-on-the-wests-loss-of-values-in-the-quest-for-diversity-equity-and-inclusion.html
PS: Does every Democrat President feel it is necessary to start a war? Surely
the only beneficiary of such a war would be China
25/01/2022:
Freezing in EV’s. Great idea: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/ev-needs13-freezing-hours-to-get-650-km-with-3-charging-stops-and-no-heater/
25/01/2022:
What happens when the tidal wave (of public opinion) turns? Neil Oliver is
great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZNmdDv48xE&t=564s
25/01/2022: Norway
24/01/2022: Is
It Still Australia
24/01/2022: “The Assyrians came down like a wolf on the fold” (Byron). Might be
worth a watch. They created a civilisation that makes
Medieval Europe, 2000 years later, seem like a barbarian place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpAphcaVJIs
24/01/2022: How science actually works – a great article Christopher: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/science/2022/01/the-curse-of-scientisms-domining-paradigm/
24/01/2022: Archaeological evidence of time travel – there are some interesting
conundrums/mistakes/frauds in the records, like these: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/controversial-origins-maine-penny-norse-coin-america-020241
& https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/swiss-ring-watch-003312
23/01/2022: Thousands still protesting vaccine mandates in
23/01/2022:
23/01/2022: The
most astonishing thing about ‘trust the science’: The British Medical Journal “Today, despite the global rollout of covid-19
vaccines and treatments, the anonymised participant
level data underlying the trials for these new products remain inaccessible to
doctors, researchers, and the public—and are likely to remain that way for years
to come. This is morally indefensible for all trials, but especially for those
involving major public health interventions.” https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/top-british-medical-journal-tells-pfizer-give-us-the-data-its-morally-indefensible/
It is not a ‘conspiracy theory’ to
question: https://the-pipeline.org/something-wicked-really-does-this-way-come/
23/01/2022: Why not?
22/01/2022: Our political class today – the advanced ostrich position:
22/01/2022: Trump was right about hydroxychloroquine
– of course this might be why Merck’s new treatment (approved by the TGA
yesterday is basically just relabeled hydroxy): https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/dr-zelenko-gets-the-last-laugh/
22/01/2022: Clearly, the cheapest way to stop global warming
would be to sack everyone at the BOM : https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/bom-cools-history-and-warms-the-present-version-2-2/
22/01/2022: If you are a retired teacher who still has nightmares about having to
face 9d at 9:00 am this morning your dreams are about to come true: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/education-victoria/retired-teachers-called-to-cover-as-covid-hits-victorias-schools/news-story/dace3b9d5b39244bf37c04d58975dc33
21/01/2022: Gun owners annually save more lives than are lost to any disease. This
does not happen in
21/01/2022: Goebells was right after all. Keep telling
lies and the people will believe you. A
21/01/2022: “We live in an age that makes truth pass for
treason, and as I dare not say anything against it, so the ears of those
that are about me will probably be found too tender to hear it. This my trial
and condemnation do sufficiently evidence." Few know that Jefferson mentioned
PS:
21/01/2022:
Tucker: We’re watching civilization collapse in real time. If you are
attention span short go to about the 15 minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DREmnsungVM&t=122s
20/01/2022: This is what really happened when a group of schoolboys was marooned
on an island for 15 months. Why do we focus on Golding’s quite false ‘Lord
of the Flies’ narrative instead: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months
20/01/2022:
20/01/2022: 4th Booster fails in
20/01/2022: It is apparently very lonely ruling the world. Frankly when they
‘fact-check my posts or downgrade my Google rankings (& etc) they don’t get
much sympathy from me: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/workers-at-big-woke-tech-monopolies-are-miserable/
19/01/2022: Flying Deer? Why you need really tall fences for deer: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/michael-jordan-has-nothing-on-this-flying-deer/
Mind you I suspect I could move much faster if a big cat was after me too!
19/01/2022: Hunting has been around a long, long time yet some ‘New Age’ folk want
to tell me they have discovered it isn’t a good. They are quite simply wrong.
Ethics don’t change: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ancient-hunters-0016305
19/01/2022: We would have done much better if we had followed
19/01/2022:
18/01/2022: The
Joy of Small Streams: This is the
A couple of earlier posts such as Travels
in a Donkey Trap & The Commute
may illustrate this better.
You will have read that Della has a new Alpacka Scout which we are keen to try out, but it is
difficult to do much with this knee (agonising) as it
presently is. Less than a month to go and I will have a new one, and hopefully
a new lease of life to go with it – but there will be quite a few weeks of
recuperation and restoration I’m sure before I travel far and wide.
The
This trip will take about three hours when the river is
clear and will be just beautiful at river heights on the Boolarra Gauge
of between .5 and .6 metres. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/01/17/the-joy-of-small-streams/
18/01/2022: So, panspermia is a thing – maybe all life on
earth is alien in origin? The
18/01/2022: What do you see when you actually measure ‘anthropogenic CO2: “Our
results show that the percentage of the total CO2 due to the
use of fossil fuels from 1750 to 2018 increased from 0% in 1750 to 12% in 2018,
much too low to be the cause of global warming.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/16/how-much-manmade-co2-is-in-the-atmosphere-really/
18/01/2022: ‘The path to
17/01/2022: A
Good Scout: This is the Alpacka Scout which I bought for my wife Della (or was
it for myself?) for a Xmas present – here modeled by my daughter and grandson
in the farm dam.
Pack
Raft Australia are the Australian agents. Their
prices are as low as you could possible get it from the
My daughter (and my wife are around 5′ and 40 kg
sort of people. This raft (at 1.5 kg) is ideal for them. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/01/17/a-good-scout/
17/01/2022: “When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when
the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty”. Thomas Jefferson.
17/01/2022: Trump can still draw the crowds like no other – what sane person
can believe that this man did not win the
17/01/2022: “The Chinese regime has taken to heart the Leninist slogan,“The
capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Important
messages from Ronald Reagan the greatest
17/01/2022: The world’s greatest tennis player is not allowed to win the Australian
Open because of his beliefs even though he is zero risk of causing any
health problems amongst us as we record 100,000+ new cases per day and he is
‘recovered’ status anyway. I’m sure you all know that I have no interest at all
in spectator sport but I am passionate about our freedoms. I am quite frankly
ashamed by this stupid, illiberal decision.
16/01/2022: Are 3D printed rockets the future of space exploration: https://www.space.com/relativity-space-company-terran-1-launch
16/01/2022: “A democracy cannot
exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters
discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From
that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most
benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always
collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The
average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years...When the
taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their
education...the time will come when men are carried away and lose all
self-restraint...It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order
to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their
hold...they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own
masters." Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59)
16/01/2022: Epstein-Barr – another nasty virus: https://scitechdaily.com/compelling-evidence-that-multiple-sclerosis-is-caused-by-epstein-barr-virus/
16/01/2022: AI news reader has been live for 70 days and no-one noticed the
difference. I suspect this has happened with many of our political leaders
too: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/china-reveals-ai-news-anchor-almost-indistinguishable-real-human
15/01/2022: It’s impossible to ‘save a life’. I for
one am fed up with the hype that always surrounds all the ‘nanny-state’
nonsense which goes with all sorts of attempts to do so. Everyone has exactly
the same numbers of lives and deaths, ie one.
Nothing, save the discovery of the secret of immortality can change that.
However, though the date of your birth is petty much fixed, the date of your
death may not be. I’m sure we have all had close shaves. Death cannot be
indefinitely postponed however. All that can happen is that we can be granted a
little more time – mostly this is spent slumped in a wheelchair pooping
oneself! So not much to be gained really. A more reliable measure is to add up
the relative savings in (life) times that any particular proposal might make as
compared with the cost in (life) times that it will entail. For example, it is
sometimes argued that reducing the speed on a particular road will ‘save’ a
certain number of lives. All that can (possibly) be ‘saved’ is the remainder of
any particular ‘victim’s’ life which was foregone by his/her earlier than
expected demise. Set against that quantum of time you have to count the ‘cost’
in time of slowing down all the drivers on that road - possibly several (life)
times per year here - and the cost in time of caring for the geriatric period
of the person who had died ‘prematurely’. If the second set of ‘times’ exceeds
the first then the proposal is not worth doing. Everyone’s life is equally
worthless or worthwhile in this cost accounting, which may not be the case!
15/01/2022: What the other epidemiologists (60,000 of them) say: https://swprs.org/professor-ehud-qimron-ministry-of-health-its-time-to-admit-failure/
15/01/2022: Maybe if we gave up washing our skin could take care of itself: https://slate.com/technology/2022/01/skincare-science-cleansing-dermatology-truth.html
15/01/2022: Will space anaemia strand us on earth forever
or will a solution be found for future star trekkers: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/we-dont-know-why-but-being-in-space-causes-us-to-destroy-our-blood/
14/01/2022: Buster Keaton was the funniest man ever, as you can see in this
clip from his 100 year old movie ‘Cops’ (1920): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1_zJngNak&t=366s
You can download the complete film for free from archive.org
14/01/2022: This is really bad news: US inflation has hit 7% https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/01/inflation-went-up-7-in-december-from-a-year-earlier-fastest-pace-since-1982/
80% of all
14/01/2022:
14/01/2022:
Now both the EU and the WHO warn against taking continual ‘booster’ shots on the grounds that it may
permanently damage your immune system – and of course they don’t work either: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/frightening-joins-eu-changes-direction-suddenly-warns-taking-continued-covid-booster-shots/
Meanwhile
cannabis and licorice are the new covid cures: https://scitechdaily.com/cannabinoids-from-hemp-prevent-covid-19-coronavirus-from-entering-human-cells/
13/01/2022: Interesting. The lost habit of two sleeps – so many everyday things
scarcely make it into history. If you have ‘problems’ sleeping, you should read
this: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep
13/01/2022:
The Redneck Guide to Children’s Rights – some interesting insights here: https://cbradleythompson.substack.com/p/the-redneck-guide-to-childrens-rights
13/01/2022:
Our shameful climate alarmists just keep inventing new climate records whilst ignoring the
reality that the world has been cooling now for 8,000 years and will continue
to do so until we enter the next Ice Age for circa 100,000 years. That would be
a big story: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/magical-seven-year-record-wins-the-hottest-ever-bingo-of-2021/
13/01/2022: If
this is authenticated (likely) it is an absolute bombshell and reveals awful evil
at the highest level: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/premeditated-manslaughter-millions-people-coordinated-highest-levels-naomi-wolf-dr-malone-respond-project-veritas-bombshell-video/
12/01/2022: A
surfing swimming cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vBUxmWeoc0
12/01/2022:
This new robot is spooky – time to put a stop to this? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/dont-let-this-humanoid-robot-within-100-feet/
12/01/2022:
Meanwhile it looks like China
11/01/2022: “I
see thy glory like a shooting star.” Richard 2. There really are ‘shooting stars’: https://www.popsci.com/space/real-shooting-stars-look-a-lot-different-than-youd-expect/
11/01/2022:
Does this mean we have to say, ‘Goodbye’ to the Bussard
Ramjet: https://scitechdaily.com/science-fiction-revisited-ramjet-propulsion-for-interstellar-space-travel/
11/01/2022: I
realized the vaccines had problems but I did not realize they were this bad: “Instead
of bringing an end to this pandemic as promised, the widespread rollout of the
experimental vaccines has actually caused a sharp increase in Covid-19
cases and deaths across the world, the jab has caused a whopping
38% more Covid cases per million – and an even more
astonishing 31% increase in deaths per million”. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/massive-145-country-study-shows-sharp-increase-transmission-death-introduction-covid-vaccines/
Meanwhile Ivermectin even at very low
doses saves a huge (70%) percentage of sufferers: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/bizarrely-low-dose-ivermectin-still-cut-infections-hospitalization-in-half-deaths-by-70/
11/01/2022: We
must reject the racist apartheid politics of the anti-Australia Day crowd. We are all Australians who
belong only to the one (human) race. That is all: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/01/the-violent-politics-of-australia-day/
10/01/2022: A
good news story about a baby hummingbird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9MxTo1W2PY&t=224s
10/01/2022:
Slow-Mo Supernova: https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-we-ve-seen-a-red-giant-star-transition-into-a-supernova
10/01/2022:
James Webb out at L2 which we might colonise one day bit until then
e will never see this amazing piece of technology again but (hopefully)it shows us a universe we could otherwise only have dreamed
of: https://www.sciencealert.com/enjoy-ariane-5-s-last-view-of-webb-as-it-sails-off-into-deep-space
10/01/2022:
Dispelling Progressive Fantasies About a World Without
Guns: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/first-do-no-harm-dispelling-progressive-fantasies-about-a-world-without-guns/
09/01/2022:
Shameful: Is it any wonder that there are 7 dead and 32 injured when clearly
everyone fled instead of rushing to help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pcsVi2y83w
09/01/2022:
The immense bravery which still exists despite decades of theocratic
totalitarianism inspires me. One should not forget that ‘the ‘Western Civilisation’ of which we are so justifiable proud (I hope)
actually stands on the shoulders of an Arab civilisation
which preserved it for close to a thousand years when it was thrown away into
barbarism in that very West. ‘Algebra’ for example isn’t just called that by
accident. Alas that ‘Arab Civilization’ has itself largely descended into
barbarism: https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/01/iranians-set-fire-to-soleimanis-statue-hours-after-unveiling/
09/01/2022:
Why humans suck at thinking. I must because I still think the real answer to
the Monty Hall problem is ½: https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/gamblers-fallacy-and-the-regression-to-the-mean/
09/01/2022:
You have to hope this does not come to pass: “Are we headed for the situation where the ~30% unvaxxed will be devoting their lives to operating whatever
is left of the economic infrastructure and serving as caretakers for the vaxxed? in the USA
09/01/2022:
Stuart Schneiderman is always refreshing. “When
government fails the movement toward populism accelerates. And it tends toward conspiracy
theories, because who would possibly believe that the people who are running
government are just plain stupid. In truth, it's easier to deal with evil than
it is to deal with stupid…A lot more of this may be on the way if the developed
world keeps playing Russian roulette with its energy supply, a vital
underpinning of a modern society and foundation of every voter’s well-being” http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2022/01/climate-change-sanity.html
08/01/2022:
Blame the hedgehogs: https://www.sciencealert.com/origins-of-drug-resistant-superbug-weren-t-what-we-thought-surprise-discovery-shows
08/01/2022:
Long past time politicians (and others) focused on things that actually matter.
Tucker’s
opening statement is worth a watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ka7zKnzEfs
08/01/2022:
Protecting the grid (rather than forcing it to collapse) is a case in point: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/deaths-from-1-degree-of-warming-nothing-compared-to-an-electricity-grid-collapse-for-a-year/
08/01/2022: January 6 Remembered – It’s only when conservatives do it (and do no
harm) that it matters: https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/07/8-times-left-wing-protesters-broke-into-government-buildings-and-assaulted-democracy/
07/01/2022: Virtue signalling is all very well but not if
it costs me a single buck: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/its-just-a-fashion-most-climate-worriers-dont-want-to-fly-less-drive-less-or-eat-less-meat-either/
07/01/2022: Viagra — is there anything it can't do? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/viagrais_there_anything_it_cant_do.html
07/01/2022:
How things work –unfortunately: https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/errors-forced-and-otherwise
07/01/2022: China
06/01/2022: We
must ‘follow the science’: scientists teach fish to drive: https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-robotic-aquarium-allows-fish-to-drive-around-on-roads/
06/01/2022:
“They have suppressed many safe, useful treatments: People deficient in Vitamin D3
are 14
times more likely to get severe Covid. Why aren’t
the Health Departments telling us all to get our D3 measured and why don’t they
hand out free samples at every corner chemist? Vit D3 reduced hospital deaths in Turkey Spain
Melatonin
reduces deaths by maybe 90%, good old antihistamines saved
nursing home patients, Iota-carageenan nasal sprays reduced infections by 80%, Mouthwashes reduce covid deaths by
80%. Asthma
drug Budesonide reduces Covid
hospitalization rate by 90%. Even
cough syrup with Bromhexine might help.
Indonesia
cut Covid by 98% with Ivermectin while
06/01/2022: A must read – mass formation psychosis explained: https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/opinion-how-have-we-gotten-here-mass-formation-psychosis-explained/
06/01/2022: How the 1960s institutionalized us. Roger Kimball is great. “The
long march of the cultural revolution of the 1960s has succeeded beyond the
wildest dreams of all but the most starry-eyed utopians. The great irony is
that this victory took place in the midst of a significant drift to the
center-right in electoral politics. The startling and depressing fact is that
supposedly conservative victories at the polls have done almost nothing to
challenge the dominance of left-wing, emancipationist attitudes and ideas in
our culture… It is both ironical and dispiriting to realize that the
counterculture may have won its most insidious victories not among its natural
sympathizers on the left but among those putatively conservative opponents who
can no longer distinguish between material affluence and the moral good…” https://spectatorworld.com/topic/institutionalized-long-march-marcuse-sixties-revolution/
05/01/2022: Terraforming Mars – I used to think it
was only Sci-Fi but maybe someday it will happen (especially if Musk has
anything to do with it): https://dnyuz.com/2022/01/02/nasas-retiring-top-scientist-says-we-can-terraform-mars-and-maybe-venus-too/
05/01/2022: Another Elon Musk
first: https://nypost.com/2022/01/03/why-cats-are-cozying-up-to-elon-musks-starlink-satellites/
05/01/2022: What is happening here? A 40% increase in the death rates of working
age people would have to be very worrying: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/highest-death-rates-history-indiana-life-insurance-ceo-says-deaths-whopping-40-among-people-aged-18-64-2020-fraction-covid-deaths-video/
05/01/2022: French Presidential candidate Eric Zemmour’s
Christmas message. He would get my vote. If only our Oz leaders had half
his belief in the worth of our civilisation instead
of being so eager to throw it away. “Christmas Eve begins the celebration of a
civilization – ours – that has enlightened human history. A civilization that
believes man is absolutely free, whatever his birth, his past, his environment,
his path. In the Christian world, liberty has a divine nature and must be
protected as the most precious treasure. A civilization that believes men are
equal in dignity…: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2022/01/a-belated-christmas-message-from-eric-zemmour/
04/01/2022: Increasing Tyranny World-Wide. Just a couple of ‘incidents’ to
underline this. Once the ABC’s 7:30 report or the Herald Sun (the mainstream
media generally) would have headlined such things but they are now complicit in
concealing the news (and the deteriorating situation). Dr Malone (the inventor
of the mRNA process which underlines some vaccines (he actually specifically
warns against) gave an interview the other day explaining the phenomenon of
‘mass formation psychosis’ (mas hysteria) and its
role in advancing totalitarianism. This search term ‘broke’ Google for over 24
hours as the people behind the manipulation of information scrambled
(unsuccessfully this time) to cover it up. You could find out about this at ‘Infowars’ for example (and many other sites) but I would
not be able to post links to them without being banned permanently from Facebook & etc. In a like way Tommy Robinson has just
completed a documentary about
Check
out the follow-up to these ‘incidents’ here: https://t.me/s/TommyRobinsonNews
Not so long ago we would have (rightly) insisted that perpetrators of child (any)
rape would be hanged from the nearest tree. Now the police (society?) has
become complicit in such awful crimes.
04/01/2022: This is normal: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/01/new-annual-temperature-data-show-no-warming-in-tokyo-in-45-yearshachijo-jima-island-no-warming-in-71-years/
You can check the BOM
04/01/2022: Life will find a way – for thousands of bugs ‘plastic pollution is
just food. They will soon have gobbled it all up. Like so many things, not
a problem: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/plastics-are-not-forever-bugs-evolved-30000-new-plastic-eating-enzymes-already/
04/01/2022: Abortion was the world’s leading cause of death last year (by a long
shot). Over 40 million! For comparison
03/01/2022: And Now For the Good News: Dear IPCC, First get the science right…If you
have a great big hole in the roof it will be impossible to heat your house…if
all the heat ‘leaks’ out over
03/01/2022: Canoeing into the New Year: There was 2.05 metres
of lovely water on the Waterford gauge and 1.60 on the Crooked River gauge and
several above 30C degree days to look forward to so we filled the 15 litre Esky keg with ice (and some
celebratory cans of champagne for Della) tossed all our gear into two cars and
headed off (of course with the two dogs) to Eaglevale
intending to canoe down to Kingwill Bridge over a
(very) leisurely three days. This is an excellent height but we enjoyed the
trip before with only 1.75 on the
It is (roughly 2.5 hours down to Bullock Flat then a further 2.5
hours down to (unsignposted) Neates
Track thence a further 3 hours down to
the
This trip could be achieved in one
(hectic) day if you were of such a mind or you could take your time, enjoy lots
of refreshing swims, picnics under shady trees and etc and just take your time.
‘There is nothing quite like messing about in boats’ as Ratty (or Mole) opined
in ‘Wind in the Willows’. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/01/02/canoeing-into-the-new-year/
03/01/2022: Three inches of rain coming but the BOM is still calling it ‘Showers’!
03/01/2022: The Perfect Husband? Well, probably not but I am a hero today
having fixed Della’s (long-suffering) stove problem. Several years’ ago I
installed a new Westinghouse GSP 627S gas stove for her. After a short while
the door started to give problems and would not close properly. Repeated
efforts to gain warranty failed as did various jack-leg work arounds so that we mainly reverted to propping the door
‘closed’ with a short length of broom handle or similar. Lately I decided to
have another go and discovered this wonderful lady’s ‘review’ of her own
experiences. https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/westinghouse-gsp627s
This led me to the people who sell the improved door support bracket (https://allfixelectrical.com.au/products/westinghouse-4u600-series-improved-oven-door-hinge-support-bracket-kit-part-0133002227k?_pos=2&_sid=e0b4fc722&_ss=r
– a whole $21!) It really took no more than five minutes to install them and
now (after many years) the door closes perfectly – much more perfectly than it
did from new.
02/01/2022: Happy New Year: We have been away from people canoeing – more
about that in a later post. Occasionally coming upon the (literally) hordes of benighted
campers confined to ‘camping grounds’ along the river whilst we enjoyed mile
after mile of solitary bliss led us to reflect that (at now over 70 – me) we
have enjoyed the best of all lives, and we are still doing so. Those who come
after have very much less to look forward to largely because of the
proliferation of government and other big controlling entities. Still there is
even more wilderness to enjoy than there ever was. The world has added an area
of a couple of Australias of forest in just the last
quarter century or so for example, and as people crowd more and more into urban
areas and access roads and tracks are closed the bush is more and more thinly
populated. It is really no use buying one of the Thai 4WD dual cabs. The only
way to access the bush is by canoe or shanks’ pony. Get out there and enjoy
before it is banned too.
02/01/2022: Great lines from old films. The 1930s was a golden era. Mae West
stands out even there. Here is one from ‘Dinner at 8’. I doubt cinematographers
would be allowed to go even this far today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2tCDHgK9J4&t=28s
02/01/2022: It has been raining fish in
02/01/2022: Inflation. ‘Nothing to see here’ is the standard government lie,
but all along they devalue the currency again and again with this device,
punishing savers and rewarding the profligate. The result for most of us is
that we become relatively poorer whilst ‘enjoying’ a larger and larger swag of
government of all sorts. This is disguised by many people having heaps of cheap
Chinese toys to play with (funded by our only profitable